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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. |
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UICC on Smuggling of Tobacco Products - http://factsheets.globalink.org/en/smuggling.shtml
Describes practices, players, countries, examples, and the role of the tobacco industry. |
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Special Report: Cigarette Companies and Smuggling - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/smuggling/
Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. |
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How Can Cigarette Smuggling Be Reduced - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7266/947
Article from the British Medical Journal. |
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Big Tobacco and Smuggling - http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020506&s=schapiro
Feature article from The Nation examines tobacco industry involvement in cigarette smuggling, and how the industry used the Patriot Act to shield itself from liability. |
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Tobacco Exports, Imports, and Smuggling - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter31/table_of_contents_chap31.html
Chapter from the Tobacco Reference Guide. |
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How Smuggling Helps Lure Generations of New Smokers - http://www.guardian.co.uk/bat/article/0,2763,191296,00.html
News article reports that "executives of British-based tobacco giant BAT sought to manage cigarette black markets in the drive to increase profits". |
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Cigarette Smuggling in Europe: Who Really Benefits? - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/1/66?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." |
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Made In The USA - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/12/60II/main540346.shtml
60 minutes story covers the evidence that R. J. Reynolds is involved in illegal cigarette smuggling. |
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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. |