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Category: Tobacco

Our investigations into the tobacco industry probed its influence via lobbying, smuggling, and how its global economic influence impacts public health and regulations.

Posted inHealth

Public health suffers as Indonesia ignores calls for tobacco reform

Avatar photo by Andreas Harsono September 9, 2011June 9, 2019

On Monday, December 27, 2010, Noor Atika Hasanah, a petite 28-year-old secretary in Jakarta, updated her Twitter feed. From her bed at the Jakarta Respiratory Centre clinic, she wrote: “To smoking parents, please do smoke as far as possible from your children … so that they won’t get lung cancer.” Atika’s own lung problem had […]

Posted inHealth

In India, bidi industry’s clout trumps health initiatives

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Murali Krishnan and Shantanu Guha Ray September 8, 2011June 9, 2019
Posted inHealth

Russia’s cigarette king practices strategic giving

Avatar photo by Roman Anin June 9, 2011June 9, 2019
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Smoke Screen Part II, Tobacco

In Mexico, tobacco fields disappearing

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab and Emma Schwartz May 31, 2011January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth

Mexican tobacco growers: Economically shunned by industry, still used as lobbyists

Avatar photo by Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab May 31, 2011June 9, 2019
Posted inHealth

About this project: Smoke Screen II

Avatar photo by Ricardo Sandoval Palos May 30, 2011June 2, 2019
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Was 1998 tobacco pact a bad deal for some U.S. states?

by The Center for Public Integrity April 11, 2011January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Philip Morris says it will continue lobbying on international tobacco controls

Avatar photo by Ricardo Sandoval Palos November 18, 2010January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Uruguay tobacco dispute heats up

Avatar photo by Ricardo Sandoval Palos November 17, 2010January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth

Overview: The tobacco lobby goes global

Avatar photo by Ricardo Sandoval Palos November 15, 2010June 9, 2019
Posted inHealth

Part I: Moscow’s open, revolving door for big tobacco

Avatar photo by Roman Anin November 15, 2010June 30, 2019
Posted inHealth

Part II: A troubled model for reform in Mexico

Avatar photo by Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab November 15, 2010June 30, 2019
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Smoke Screen, Tobacco

Part III: Uruguay vs. Philip Morris

Avatar photo by Claudio Paolillo November 15, 2010January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The counterfeit cops

Avatar photo by Te-Ping Chen January 27, 2010January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

ATF’s ‘ad hoc’ efforts give tobacco smugglers a free pass

Avatar photo by Te-Ping Chen October 1, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Smuggler pleads guilty to moving 27 million smokes

Avatar photo by Kate Willson August 14, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Top Swiss organized crime case ends, only two convicted

by Marina Walker Guevara July 16, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Black markets, organized crime ravaging West Africa

Avatar photo by Kate Willson July 7, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

Terrorism and tobacco

Avatar photo by Kate Willson June 29, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The Taliban and tobacco

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Aamir Latif and Kate Willson June 29, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

China’s Marlboro Country

Avatar photo by Te-Ping Chen June 29, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

Smuggling made easy

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Marina Walker Guevara, Mabel Rehnfeldt and Marcelo Soares June 29, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

El gran ‘duty free’

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Marina Walker Guevara, Mabel Rehnfeldt and Marcelo Soares June 29, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

When cracking down seems impossible

Avatar photo by Marina Walker Guevara and Mabel Rehnfeldt June 29, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

Ukraine’s ‘lost’ cigarettes flood Europe

Avatar photo by Vlad Lavrov June 29, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Canadian Hells Angels and contraband tobacco

Avatar photo by William Marsden June 5, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The Montenegro connection

Avatar photo by Leo Sisti June 2, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

Djukanovic’s Montenegro: a family business

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Miranda Patrucic, Mirsad Brkic and Svjetlana Celic June 2, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Mississippi officials make largest contraband cigarette seizure in U.S. history

Avatar photo by Kate Willson May 15, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco

Mapping the impact of illicit cigarettes

Avatar photo by Te-Ping Chen March 27, 2009January 7, 2022

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