Illicit Trade/Smuggling: Resources
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
- Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on a Protocol on Illicit Trade in Tobacco.
Key Web Sites
- Framework Convention Alliance: Illicit Trade. Policy papers and recommendations for the FCTC illicit trade protocol.
- The Center for Public Integrity: Tobacco Underground. A series of investigative smuggling pieces by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
- Action on Smoking or Health (UK): Smuggling. Describes tobacco smuggling situation in the UK.
Reports, Articles & Studies
- How eliminating the global illicit cigarette trade would increase tax revenue and save lives. Joossens L, Merriman D, Ross H, Raw M.
- Report on Smuggling Control in Spain (WHO). Joossens L.
- Tobacco industry activities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Illicit tobacco trade. WHO EMRO (2004).
- Technology and the Fight against Illicit Tobacco Trade. Joossens L (2008).
- Progress in combating cigarette smuggling: controlling the supply chain. Joossens L and Raw M (2008). This paper presents the successful efforts of three countries to reduce tobacco smuggling.
