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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

British American Tobacco and Tobacco Smuggling Statements published by the Select Committee on Health of the House of Commons in the UK. http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/bat/bindex.htm

Canadian Government Legal Action in Major Tobacco Smuggling Operation Summary of suit filed against major tobacco companies including R. J. Reynolds. http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/newsroom/releases/1999/dec/lawsuit-e.html

Cigarette Smuggling in California: Fact and Fiction Scientific analysis examines tobacco industry financials and comrpes them to industry claims about cigarette smuggling. http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmus/Smuggling2003/

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

Guardian Unlimited: Special reports: BAT Details on British American Tobacco's activities around the world, with an emphasis on smuggling. http://www.guardian.co.uk/bat/

How Can Cigarette Smuggling Be Reduced Article from the British Medical Journal. http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7266/947

NOW: In Depth - The Black Market Peso Exchange Documentary on cigarette company involvement in drug money laundering. http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/peso.html

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&notFound=true

Rob Cunningham and Greg Connolly on CKNW Transcript of radio show on the topic of tobacco smuggling and industry involvement in Canada. http://airspace.globalink.org/cknw.html

Special Report: Cigarette Companies and Smuggling Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/smuggling/

Tobacco Exports, Imports, and Smuggling Chapter from the Tobacco Reference Guide. http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter31/table_of_contents_chap31.html

UICC on Smuggling of Tobacco Products Describes practices, players, countries, examples, and the role of the tobacco industry. http://factsheets.globalink.org/en/smuggling.shtml

Made In The USA 60 minutes story covers the evidence that R. J. Reynolds is involved in illegal cigarette smuggling. (February 13, 2003) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/12/60II/main540346.shtml

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. (May 6, 2002) http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020506&s=schapiro

Cigarette Makers Eye Surge in Suits, Investigations Cigarette makers are facing a surge of lawsuits and investigations involving their role in cigarette smuggling. (August 10, 2000) http://cjonline.com/stories/081000/new_cigmakers.shtml

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". (January 31, 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/bat/article/0,2763,191296,00.html