2008-07-25

WASHINGTON, DC - “The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product. Tobacco is the world’s most widely smuggled legal substance.”

Thus starts the description of the huge series including articles, maps and documentation about tobbacco smuggling. The research was conducted by an international team of the International Consortium for Investigative, ICIJ. It was published at the end of 2008.

The journalists asked the key questions: How big is the problem? Where are the smuggling routes? What are the consequences?

Read about how contrabande cigarettes flood the EU, about smuggling empires and much more on the websites of the Center for Public Integrity / the ICIJ.

(Published in 2008)

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