- 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.
http://www.ash.org.uk/?smuggling
- 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 there is no international market. It is the well-known international brands such as Marlboro and Winston."
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/1/66?ijkey=EGS1vJp6cQn7Y
- European Community v. RJR
Complaint brought by European Community against RJR over money-laundering/smuggling.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/Documents/021030ecvrjr.html
- 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".
http://guardianunlimited.co.uk/bat/article/0,2763,191296,00.html
- Made In The USA
60 minutes story covers the evidence that R. J. Reynolds is involved in illegal cigarette smuggling.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/12/60II/main540346.shtml
- 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. "
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/smuggling.html
- 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.
http://www.tobacco.org/News/rendezvous/joossens.html
- 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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A34758-2002Nov24¬Found=true
- Tobacco Company Accused of Smuggling
Canada police have brought charges against a major tobacco company for smuggling.
http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=%7B2A2ABB06-122F-487F-838B-A84CFE7503FF%7D
- 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.
http://www.icij.org/investigate/bouma.html
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