Tobacco Smuggling
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16 Issues in the smuggling of tobacco products
This chapter reviews several issues related to the smuggling of cigarettes and other tobacco products. First, the health and other consequences of cigarette smuggling are described, emphasizing the potential for cigarette smuggling to undermine tobaccocontrol efforts. This is followed by a description of the various legal, quasi-legal, and illegal activities that are broadly described as smuggl...
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Cigarette smuggling, now on the increase, is so widespread and well organised that it poses a serious threat to public health. This threat comes from two principal directions. First, smuggling makes cigarettes available cheaply, thereby increasing consumption. A third of annual global exports go to the contraband market, representing an enormous impact on consumption, and thus causing an increa...
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BACKGROUND The illicit tobacco trade results in huge losses of revenue to governments, estimated at $US40-50 billion in 2006, and in increased consumption and thus health problems because it makes tobacco available more cheaply. On 20 October 2008 the second meeting of the International Negotiating Body (INB2) on the illicit trade protocol of WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)...
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متن کاملComplicity in contraband: British American Tobacco and cigarette smuggling in Asia.
OBJECTIVES To examine the complicity of British American Tobacco (BAT) in cigarette smuggling in Asia, and to assess the centrality of illicit trade to regional corporate strategy. METHODS Analysis of previously confidential documents from BAT's Guildford depository. An iterative strategy combined searches based on geography, organisational structure, and key personnel, while corporate euphem...
متن کاملCrossing geographical, legal and moral boundaries: the Belgian cigarette black market.
OBJECTIVES To describe and analyse the cigarette smuggling trade in Belgium and its role in the international cigarette black market. DESIGN Analysis of Belgian customs and prosecution files concerning the cigarette smuggling trade in the period 2000 to 2006 and interviews with law enforcement authorities and private tobacco industry. RESULTS Analyses were made of the geographical aspects, ...
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