Smuggling Tobacco Health

Smuggling

Sites about the smuggling of tobacco products.

• - Investigative report. British American Tobacco, the second largest tobacco company in the world, "for decades secretly encouraged tax evasion and cigarette smuggling in a global effort to secure market share and lure generations of new smokers, inte
  
• - Scientific analysis examines tobacco industry financials and comrpes them to industry claims about cigarette smuggling.
  
• - The world's second biggest tobacco company encouraged the smuggling of billions of black market cigarettes to evade taxes and increase market share, analysis of more than 11,000 corporate documents has revealed.
  
• - 60 minutes story covers the evidence that R. J. Reynolds is involved in illegal cigarette smuggling.
  
• - 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 th
  
• - Public Integrity report on the fraud, racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy charges against BAT, R. J. Reynolds, and Philip Morris.
  
• - Article from the British Medical Journal.
  
• - Summary of suit filed against major tobacco companies including R. J. Reynolds.
  
• - Describes practices, players, countries, examples, and the role of the tobacco industry.
  
• - Submission to the House of Commons Health Select Committee in the UK from ASH-HK provides detailed report on tobacco industry involvement in smugging cigarettes.
  
• - Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
  
• - Article on black market trade in tobacco products covers gang and tobacco industry involvement.
  
• - Investigative journalism by The Nation, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the PBS newsmagazine NOW uncovers a global cigarette smuggling network aimed at establishing Big Tobacco's brands in new markets.
  
• - News item reports on Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds involvement in tobacco smuggling.
  
• - 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.
  
• - RJR (RJ Reynolds) pleads guilty in Federal Court, and will pay the U.S. government $15 million after admitting that one of its subsidiaries knowlingly aided and abetted the smuggling of cigarettes into Canada.
  
• - Statements published by the Select Committee on Health of the House of Commons in the UK.
  
• - Tobacco smuggling into Canada is a multi-billion dollar business. Articles, analysis, opinion on the subject.
  
• - Cigarette makers are facing a surge of lawsuits and investigations involving their role in cigarette smuggling.
  
• - 25% of all tobacco distributed around the world is illegal contraband, according to an international researcher.
  
• - Complaint brought by European Community against RJR over money-laundering/smuggling.
  
• - Chapter from the Tobacco Reference Guide.
  
• - 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.
  
• - In its search to maintain and enlarge cigarette markets and corporate revenue, British American Tobacco - the world's second largest tobacco multinational and parent company of Brown & Williamson - exploited a sophisticated network of smuggling routes
  
• - Evidence that tobacco companies may have assisted a huge cigarette smuggling operation is undercutting a traditional tobacco industry argument against cigarette taxes.
  
• - Reviews industry documents and other evidence connecting BAT (British American Tobacco) with cigarette smuggling.
  
• - PBS documentary on cigarette smuggling "used by the biggest tobacco companies as a tool to break into markets all over the world. "
  
• - Details on British American Tobacco's activities around the world, with an emphasis on smuggling.
  
• - Documentary on cigarette company involvement in drug money laundering.
  
• - Transcript of radio show on the topic of tobacco smuggling and industry involvement in Canada.
  
• - Canada police have brought charges against a major tobacco company for smuggling.
  
• - Summary by ASH-UK of legal action pending against the major tobacco companies for smuggling tobacco.
  
• - New York Times article covers evidence that the largest tobacco companies are knowingly selling billions of dollars of cigarettes into the black market.
  
• - British American Tobacco for decades secretly encouraged tax evasion and cigarette smuggling in a global effort to secure market share and lure generations of new smokers, internal corporate documents reveal.
  
• - 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.
  
• - News article reports that "executives of British-based tobacco giant BAT sought to manage cigarette black markets in the drive to increase profits".
  
• - Information summarized from NRC Handelsblad article.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Investigative report concludes U.S. cigarette companies smuggled cigarettes into Iraq aided by the PKK or Kurdish Workers Party, which the United States has labeled a terrorist group.
  
  

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