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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.

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.

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.

Canadian Government Legal Action in Major Tobacco Smuggling Operation - http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/newsroom/releases/1999/dec/lawsuit-e.html
Summary of suit filed against major tobacco companies including R. J. Reynolds.

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://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmus/Smuggling2003/
Scientific analysis examines tobacco industry financials and comrpes them to industry claims about cigarette smuggling.

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."

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

Guardian Unlimited: Special reports: BAT - http://www.guardian.co.uk/bat/
Details on British American Tobacco's activities around the world, with an emphasis on 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.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".

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.

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.

RJ Reynolds and Smuggling - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A34758-2002Nov24&notFound=true
Washington Post editorial summarizes the evidence that R. J. Reynolds aided in smuggling, made deals with organized crime and Columbian drug gangs, and violated U.S. sanctions on Iraq.

Special Report: Cigarette Companies and Smuggling - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/smuggling/
Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

Tobacco Exports, Imports, and Smuggling - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter31/table_of_contents_chap31.html
Chapter from the Tobacco Reference Guide.

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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