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Press Releases in category "Smuggling"
May 2008
22/05/2008 New evidence on tobacco smuggling presented to Health Select Committee
March 2008
13/03/2008 ASH welcomes announcement on new government anti-smuggling strategy but tax rise not high enough.
February 2008
08/02/2008 Tobacco smuggling treaty holds the key to big cut in smoking deaths.
December 2007
14/12/2007 JTI Agreement with the EU - UK left out in the cold.
March 2007
04/03/2007 Public demand Chancellor puts up tobacco tax in Budget
22/03/2006 Budget 2006 and smoking: Bad news for public health?
July 2005
19/07/2005 Government should back CMO's call to tackle tobacco smuggling and make ALL workplaces smokefree
March 2005
16/03/2005 Budget response: Tax rise welcomed but more action needed to tackle smuggling.
11/03/2005 Budget 2005: Tobacco tax and smuggling
July 2004
March 2004
26/03/2004 Out to BAT
11/03/2004 Budget 2004: What it will say and what it should say
October 2003
20/10/2003 Blow to bootleggers welcomed - but what about the Big Boys?
January 2003
10/01/2003 MPs savage Imperial Tobacco over smuggling
October 2002
29/10/2002 Government announces new strategy to tackle x-channel smuggling
May 2002
02/05/2002 Imperial profits from smuggling - ASH calls for an inquiry
February 2002
19/02/2002 US judge throws out European Union tobacco smuggling racketeering case on a technicality
05/02/2002 'Defensive and reactionary' Imperial Tobacco face hard questions at AGM
January 2002
18/01/2002 ASH backs Dobson Tobacco Disclosure Bill
December 2001
18/12/2001 Ministers swat away European Commission meddling on anti tobacco smuggling strategy
18/12/2001 HM Customs press release rejecting Commission comlaints about tobacco smuggling strategy
17/12/2001 Dubai ambassador to London organised smuggling of BAT cigarettes - documents show
10/12/2001 Cigarettes on the internet: a new frontier for Big Tobacco
05/12/2001 BAT profits warning - reducing smuggling reduces profits
October 2001
24/10/2001 European Commission sides with tobacco smugglers against UK Customs
July 2001
June 2001
26/06/2001 Kenneth Clarke for Conservative leader? ASH says he is soiled by his association with BAT
13/06/2001 Buying cheap cigarettes on the internet: an ASH survey shows it is more risky than you might think
April 2001
02/04/2001 Imperial tobacco's venture in Africa: a cover for more smuggling?
March 2001
09/03/2001 Cutting tax would not reduce smuggling: letter to FT
02/03/2001 Tobacco ad ban: new research shows importance of water-tight laws
February 2001
20/02/2001 ASH scornful of tobacco industry calls for reduced tobacco tax to tackle smuggling
14/02/2001 The BBC's Money Programme looks at tobacco smuggling: ASH asks - who is behind the mafia connection?
November 2000
06/11/2000 EU takes US tobacco companies to court over tobacco smuggling
October 2000
30/10/2000 BAT to be investigated by UK Government over global cigarette smuggling
September 2000
21/09/2000 BAT faces punitive racketeering charges over Colombian smuggling
July 2000
31/07/2000 BAT at large in Africa: new documents on smuggling
24/07/2000 Letter to Wall St. Journal on Industry smuggling
20/07/2000 Cigarette smuggling: EU takes legal action against Big Tobacco
June 2000
14/06/2000 Health Committee sets new anti-tobacco agenda
April 2000
20/04/2000 A bad year for BAT: but £300 million profit from smuggled cigarettes
March 2000
22/03/2000 Tobacco smuggling: at last, a serious & proportional response
February 2000
16/02/2000 Health select committee tobacco hearing: BAT goes head-to-head with ASH
16/02/2000 More evidence of BAT & smuggling
December 1999
07/12/1999 MPs told 75% of smuggling is due to organised gangs & large scale fraud
November 1999
07/11/1999 Smuggling increasing: capitulation to organised crime or continue with good health?
June 1999
07/06/1999 Letter to Economist about smuggling
March 1999
01/03/1999 Chancellor urged to increase tobacco tax & ignore tobacco industry smokescreen
November 1998
30/11/1998 Cigarette tax rise: don't let good health & tax policy be diverted by smugglers
April 1998
22/04/1998 Tobacco smuggling: Customs clampdown better than tax climbdown
