Directory of Smuggling Resources

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Sites about the smuggling of tobacco products.

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• BAT and Tobacco Smuggling

  http://www.ash.org.uk/?smuggling
  Collection of around 150 internal British American Tobacco (BAT) documents, illustrating the extent of BAT's involvement in cigarette smuggling in Asia and Latin America.

• British American Tobacco and Tobacco Smuggling

  http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/bat/bindex.htm
  Statements published by the Select Committee on Health of the House of Commons in the UK.

• Cigarette Makers Eye Surge in Suits, Investigations

  http://cjonline.com/stories/081000/new_cigmakers.shtml
  Cigarette makers are facing a surge of lawsuits and investigations involving their role in cigarette smuggling.

• Cigarette Smuggling in California: Fact and Fiction

  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fv0b2sz
  Scientific analysis examines tobacco industry financials and comrpes them to industry claims about cigarette smuggling.

• Cigarette Smuggling in Europe: Who Really Benefits?

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/7/1/66.full?ijkey=EGS1vJp6cQn7Y
  Research concludes "cigarette smuggling is not caused principally by 'market forces'. It is mainly caused by fraud, by the illegal evasion of import duty. The cigarettes involved are not the cheap brands from southern European countries, for which there is no international market. It is the well-known international brands such as Marlboro and Winston."

• European Community v. RJR

  http://www.tobacco.org/resources/Documents/021030ecvrjr.html
  Complaint brought by European Community against RJR over money-laundering/smuggling.

• How Can Cigarette Smuggling Be Reduced

  http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7266/947
  Article from the British Medical Journal.

• How Smuggling Helps Lure Generations of New Smokers

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/31/duncancampbell
  News article reports that "executives of British-based tobacco giant BAT sought to manage cigarette black markets in the drive to increase profits".

• Made In The USA

  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/made-in-the-usa/
  60 minutes story covers the evidence that R. J. Reynolds is involved in illegal cigarette smuggling.

• NOW: In Depth - The Black Market Peso Exchange

  http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/peso.html
  Documentary on cigarette company involvement in drug money laundering.

• NOW: In Depth - Tobacco Traffic

  http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/smuggling.html
  PBS documentary on cigarette smuggling "used by the biggest tobacco companies as a tool to break into markets all over the world. "

• Philippe Boucher's Rendez-vous with Luk Joossens

  http://www.tobacco.org/News/rendezvous/joossens.html
  Joossens is an expert in tobacco smuggling and illegal tobacco sales; in this interview he discusses the size of the illegal market and the advantages to the industry of a sizeable illegal market.

 

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