Cigarette Smuggling

Brazil Declares War on Teen Smoking

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Big Tobacco, Chemical Dependence, Smoking, Brazil, Paraguay, Cancer, Mercosur, Latin America, Cigarette Smuggling, Brazil Smoking Ban, Brazil Smoking Regulation, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Efforts to prohibit teen smoking throughout the region escalates the conflict between governments who seek to legislate behavior and businesses and some politicians who view tobacco as a question of economics.

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Feds Crackdown On Cross-Border Cigarette Smuggling

nytimes.com | AL BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cigarette Smuggling, Cigarettes, Cigarette Tax, New York, New York City, New York News

Federal authorities on Thursday morning were rounding up a group of suspects in New York, about 20 men and women all told, who the authorities say wer...

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Cigarette Smuggling Gang Indicted, Europe's Biggest Operation In Years

The Montenegro Connection | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smuggling, Montenegro, Cigarettes, Tobacco Smuggling, Foreign Affairs, Cigarette Smuggling, Italy, Mafia, Europe, Advocacy, World News

"My little cat ... I'm going crazy without you .... You have repeatedly betrayed me, I think .... Little cat, when are you coming? ... I love you, lit...

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Higher Cigarette Taxes Lure Buyers To Black Market

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indian Reservations, Cigarette Tax, Cigarette Smuggling, Counterfeit Cigarettes, Black Market Cigarettes, Illegal Cigarettes, Cigarette Cartons, Cigarette Tax Increases, Black Market, Business News

NEW YORK — The big cigarette tax increases that many states are instituting to balance their out-of-whack budgets are raising fears that the tre...

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