Smuggling (Tobacco)

Smuggling Sites:

BAT and Smuggling BAT and Smuggling: Reviews industry documents and other evidence connecting BAT (British American Tobacco) with cigarette smuggling. (Smuggling) http://www.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/smugglingbat.html Smuggling and the Tobacco Business Smuggling and the Tobacco Business: 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. (Smuggling) http://www.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/submission.html UICC on Smuggling of Tobacco Products UICC on Smuggling of Tobacco Products: Describes practices, players, countries, examples, and the role of the tobacco industry. (Smuggling) http://factsheets.globalink.org/en/smuggling.shtml Cigarette Makers Are Seen as Aiding Rise in Smuggling Cigarette Makers Are Seen as Aiding Rise in Smuggling: New York Times article covers evidence that the largest tobacco companies are knowingly selling billions of dollars of cigarettes into the black market. (Smuggling) http://www.healthwatcher.net/Smuggling/nyt970825smugbig.html Tobacco Exports, Imports, and Smuggling Tobacco Exports, Imports, and Smuggling: Chapter from the Tobacco Reference Guide. (Smuggling) http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter31/table_of_contents_chap31.html How Can Cigarette Smuggling Be Reduced How Can Cigarette Smuggling Be Reduced: Article from the British Medical Journal. (Smuggling) http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7266/947 Special Report: Cigarette Companies and Smuggling Special Report: Cigarette Companies and Smuggling: Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. (Smuggling) http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/smuggling/ Major Tobacco Multinational Implicated In Cigarette Smuggling Major Tobacco Multinational Implicated In Cigarette Smuggling: 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. (Smuggling) http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=80&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 NOW: In Depth - Tobacco Traffic NOW: In Depth - Tobacco Traffic: PBS documentary on cigarette smuggling "used by the biggest tobacco companies as a tool to break into markets all over the world. " (Smuggling) http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/smuggling.html Cigarette Smuggling in California: Fact and Fiction Cigarette Smuggling in California: Fact and Fiction: Scientific analysis examines tobacco industry financials and comrpes them to industry claims about cigarette smuggling. (Smuggling) http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmus/Smuggling2003/ Big Tobacco: Uncovering the Industry's Multi-billion Dollar Global Smuggling Network Big Tobacco: Uncovering the Industry's Multi-billion Dollar Global Smuggling Network: 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. (Smuggling) http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020506&s=schapiro Tobacco Companies Linked to Criminal Organizations in Cigarette Smuggling Tobacco Companies Linked to Criminal Organizations in Cigarette Smuggling: Public Integrity report on the fraud, racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy charges against BAT, R. J. Reynolds, and Philip Morris. (Smuggling) http://www.public-i.org/report.aspx?aid=359&sid=100 British American Tobacco and Tobacco Smuggling British American Tobacco and Tobacco Smuggling: Statements published by the Select Committee on Health of the House of Commons in the UK. (Smuggling) http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/bat/bindex.htm BAT and Tobacco Smuggling BAT and Tobacco 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. (Smuggling) http://www.ash.org.uk/?smuggling Tobacco Giant Ran Smuggling Rackets Tobacco Giant Ran Smuggling Rackets: 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. (Smuggling) http://www.icij.org/investigate/bouma.html Cigarette Smuggling in Europe: Who Really Benefits? Cigarette Smuggling in Europe: Who Really Benefits?: 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 (Smuggling) http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/1/66?ijkey=EGS1vJp6cQn7Y Philippe Boucher's Rendez-vous with Luk Joossens Philippe Boucher's Rendez-vous with Luk Joossens: 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. (Smuggling) http://www.tobacco.org/News/rendezvous/joossens.html RJR Pleads Guilty to Smuggling RJR Pleads Guilty to Smuggling: 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. (Smuggling) http://healthwatcher.net/Smuggling/tno981223rjr-smuggling.html Global Reach of Tobacco Company's Involvement in Cigarette Smuggling Global Reach of Tobacco Company's Involvement in Cigarette Smuggling: 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 (Smuggling) http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=81&L1=10&L2=70&L3=15&L4=0&L5=0&State=&Year=2000 Tobacco Company Accused of Smuggling Tobacco Company Accused of Smuggling: Canada police have brought charges against a major tobacco company for smuggling. (Smuggling) http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=%7B2A2ABB06-122F-487F-838B-A84CFE7503FF%7D Case Could Topple Tobacco Industry Arguments Against Cigarette Tax Case Could Topple Tobacco Industry Arguments Against Cigarette Tax: Evidence that tobacco companies may have assisted a huge cigarette smuggling operation is undercutting a traditional tobacco industry argument against cigarette taxes. (Smuggling) http://healthwatcher.net/Smuggling/syr980607miller.html RJ Reynolds and Smuggling RJ Reynolds and Smuggling: 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. (Smuggling) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A34758-2002Nov24&notFound=true Tobacco Companies Linked to Criminal Organizations in Lucrative Cigarette Smuggling Trade Tobacco Companies Linked to Criminal Organizations in Lucrative Cigarette Smuggling Trade: Article on black market trade in tobacco products covers gang and tobacco industry involvement. (Smuggling) http://www.public-i.org/report.aspx?aid=351&sid=100 RICO and Tobacco Smuggling RICO and Tobacco Smuggling: Summary by ASH-UK of legal action pending against the major tobacco companies for smuggling tobacco. (Smuggling) http://www.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/ricomenu.html European Community v. RJR European Community v. RJR: Complaint brought by European Community against RJR over money-laundering/smuggling. (Smuggling) http://www.tobacco.org/resources/Documents/021030ecvrjr.html How Smuggling Helps Lure Generations of New Smokers How Smuggling Helps Lure Generations of New Smokers: News article reports that "executives of British-based tobacco giant BAT sought to manage cigarette black markets in the drive to increase profits". (Smuggling) http://www.guardian.co.uk/bat/article/0,2763,191296,00.html Rob Cunningham and Greg Connolly on CKNW Rob Cunningham and Greg Connolly on CKNW: Transcript of radio show on the topic of tobacco smuggling and industry involvement in Canada. (Smuggling) http://airspace.globalink.org/cknw.html NOW: In Depth - The Black Market Peso Exchange NOW: In Depth - The Black Market Peso Exchange: Documentary on cigarette company involvement in drug money laundering. (Smuggling) http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/peso.html Tobacco Giants "Traded With Drug Barons" Tobacco Giants "Traded With Drug Barons": News item reports on Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds involvement in tobacco smuggling. (Smuggling) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Americas/2001-03/barons250301.shtml Canadian Government Legal Action in Major Tobacco Smuggling Operation Canadian Government Legal Action in Major Tobacco Smuggling Operation: Summary of suit filed against major tobacco companies including R. J. Reynolds. (Smuggling) http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/newsroom/releases/1999/dec/lawsuit-e.html Guardian Unlimited: Special reports: BAT Guardian Unlimited: Special reports: BAT: Details on British American Tobacco's activities around the world, with an emphasis on smuggling. (Smuggling) http://www.guardian.co.uk/bat/ U.S. Tobacco Companies Accused of Terrorist Ties and Iraqi Sanctions-Busting U.S. Tobacco Companies Accused of Terrorist Ties and Iraqi Sanctions-Busting: 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. (Smuggling) http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=11&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 Cigarette Makers Eye Surge in Suits, Investigations Cigarette Makers Eye Surge in Suits, Investigations: Cigarette makers are facing a surge of lawsuits and investigations involving their role in cigarette smuggling. (Smuggling) http://cjonline.com/stories/081000/new_cigmakers.shtml Theory on Contraband Tobacco Unveiled in Montreal Theory on Contraband Tobacco Unveiled in Montreal: 25% of all tobacco distributed around the world is illegal contraband, according to an international researcher. (Smuggling) http://montreal.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=tobacco020916 Tobacco Smuggling Tobacco Smuggling: Tobacco smuggling into Canada is a multi-billion dollar business. Articles, analysis, opinion on the subject. (Smuggling) http://www.healthwatcher.net/TW/twsmuggle.html Tobacco industry Involved in Large Scale Cigarette Smuggling Tobacco industry Involved in Large Scale Cigarette Smuggling: Information summarized from NRC Handelsblad article. (Smuggling) http://www.antenna.nl/nietrokers/e/n01129.html Big Tobacco and Smuggling Big Tobacco and 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. (Smuggling) http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020506&s=schapiro Major Tobacco Company Organized Cigarette Smuggling, Evaded Taxes, Documents Show Major Tobacco Company Organized Cigarette Smuggling, Evaded Taxes, Documents Show: 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 (Smuggling) http://www.publici.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=80 Cigarette Smuggling: A Global Weapon against Public Health Measures Cigarette Smuggling: A Global Weapon against Public Health Measures: Annotated list of links organized by Nonsmokers Rights Association of Canada. Pulls together primary and secondary sources, news and analysis. (Smuggling) http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/news_info.php?cPath=27&news_id=30 Made In The USA Made In The USA: 60 minutes story covers the evidence that R. J. Reynolds is involved in illegal cigarette smuggling. (Smuggling) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/12/60II/main540346.shtml