U.S. Tobacco Companies Accused of Terrorist Ties and Iraqi Sanctions-Busting
- Investigative report concludes U.S. cigarette companies smuggled cigarettes into Iraq aided by the PKK or Kurdish Workers Party, which the United States has labeled a terrorist group.
- http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=11&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0

Tobacco Companies Linked to Criminal Organizations in Lucrative Cigarette Smuggling Trade
- Article on black market trade in tobacco products covers gang and tobacco industry involvement.
- http://www.public-i.org/report.aspx?aid=351&sid=100

Tobacco Companies Linked to Criminal Organizations in Cigarette Smuggling
- Public Integrity report on the fraud, racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy charges against BAT, R. J. Reynolds, and Philip Morris.
- http://www.public-i.org/report.aspx?aid=359&sid=100

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 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://www.guardian.co.uk/bat/article/0,2763,191296,00.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/

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

Major Tobacco Multinational Implicated In Cigarette Smuggling
- British American Tobacco for decades secretly encouraged tax evasion and cigarette smuggling in a global effort to secure market share and lure generations of new smokers, internal corporate documents reveal.
- http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=80&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0

Global Reach of Tobacco Company's Involvement in Cigarette Smuggling
- In its search to maintain and enlarge cigarette markets and corporate revenue, British American Tobacco - the world's second largest tobacco multinational and parent company of Brown & Williamson - exploited a sophisticated network of smuggling routes
- http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=81&L1=10&L2=70&L3=15&L4=0&L5=0&State=&Year=2000

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

BAT and Smuggling
- Reviews industry documents and other evidence connecting BAT (British American Tobacco) with cigarette smuggling.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/smugglingbat.html

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.
- http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020506&s=schapiro

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

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

RICO and Tobacco Smuggling
- Summary by ASH-UK of legal action pending against the major tobacco companies for smuggling tobacco.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/ricomenu.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

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

Smuggling and the Tobacco Business
- Submission to the House of Commons Health Select Committee in the UK from ASH-HK provides detailed report on tobacco industry involvement in smugging cigarettes.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/submission.html

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

European Community v. RJR
- Complaint brought by European Community against RJR over money-laundering/smuggling.
- http://www.tobacco.org/resources/Documents/021030ecvrjr.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

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

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

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

Special Report: Cigarette Companies and Smuggling
- Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
- http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/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 th
- http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/1/66?ijkey=EGS1vJp6cQn7Y

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

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