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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has fined two tobacco companies and 10 retailers a total of £225m for "unlawful" tobacco pricing.The firms were found to have colluded to push up prices during 2001-03.
The OFT said that there was an understanding that the price of some brands would be linked to rival brands in order to limit competition.
Retailers the Co-operative and Asda, received the heftiest fines at more than £14m each.
The other companies involved are manufacturers Imperial Tobacco and Gallaher, and retailers First Quench, Morrisons, One Stop Stores, Safeway, Sainsbury, Shell, Somerfield and TM Retail.This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.