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Category: Tobacco Underground

The booming global trade in smuggled cigarettes.

Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The counterfeit cops

Avatar photo by Te-Ping Chen January 27, 2010January 7, 2022

The downstairs study was in shambles that morning, but the maid denied she’d been anywhere inside. A line of footprints muddied the wall surrounding the yard; still, as he stared groggily at the scene, Carl Risheim had trouble comprehending it. To be sure, as a former law enforcement trainer in Colombia, Risheim had seen his […]

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, 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

Big tobacco’s New York black market

Avatar photo by Marina Walker Guevara and Kate Willson December 19, 2008July 13, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

SMOKE2U

Avatar photo by Te-Ping Chen December 19, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

Made to be smuggled

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Roman Shleynov, Stefan Candea, Duncan Campbell and Vlad Lavrov October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

Going undercover

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Stefan Candea, Duncan Campbell, Vlad Lavrov and Roman Shleynov October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

‘The guy in the wheelchair’

Avatar photo by Kate Willson October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

Overview

by Marina Walker Guevara October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

Blame the distributor

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

How to get away with smuggling

Avatar photo by William Marsden October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The secret factory: Take an undercover tour of Baltic Tobacco

Avatar photo by ICIJ October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The expert: watch an interview with Luk Joossens

Avatar photo by ICIJ October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The expert: listen to John Colledge

Avatar photo by ICIJ October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The undercover cop: listen to ex-FBI agent Tom Zyckowski

Avatar photo by ICIJ October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The lawsuit: read how Gallaher smuggled

Avatar photo by ICIJ October 20, 2008January 7, 2022
Posted inHealth, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Underground

The team

Avatar photo by ICIJ October 20, 2008January 7, 2022

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