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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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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." |