Illicit tobacco trade between the United States and Mexico.

Use of Tobacco Tax Stamps to Prevent and Reduce Illicit Tobacco Trade — United States, 2014

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. Increasing the unit price on tobacco products is the most effective tobacco prevention and control measure. Illicit tobacco trade (illicit trade) undermines high tobacco prices by providing tobacco users with cheaper-priced alternatives. In the United States, illicit trade primarily occurs when cigarettes ar...

Euromonitor data on the illicit trade in cigarettes.

Euromonitor International is a wellknown proprietary data source whose data regarding the global tobacco control community are available for purchase. Euromonitor presents country level data on most high-income countries, and many low-income and middle-income countries on tobacco production, consumption, trade and illicit trade as well as disaggregated data including prices and taxes and narrat...

Protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products: the dawn of a new era.

Stock Market Interactions between the BRICS and the United States: Evidence from Asymmetric Granger Causality Tests in the Frequency Domain

The interaction of BRICS stock markets with the United States is studied using an asymmetric Granger causality test based on the frequency domain. This type of analysis allows for both positive and negative shocks over different horizons. There is a clear bivariate causality that runs both ways between the United States stock market and the respective BRICS markets. In addition, both negative a...

Progress in combating cigarette smuggling: controlling the supply chain

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)...