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Press Releases in category "Smuggling"

June 2009

23/06/2009 UK could benefit by up to £5.7bn through international tobacco smuggling agreement

April 2009

22/04/2009 Tobacco tax rise is welcome but needs to be backed by anti-smuggling measures

22/04/2009 Anti-smuggling agreements: better late than never

March 2009

13/03/2009 Health Select Committee inquiry report calls for more action to reduce smoking to narrow the gap in health inequalities

November 2008

24/11/2008 Pre-Budget Report: Tobacco tax maintained and smuggling strategy updated – good progress being made but more work needed

20/11/2008 Pre-Budget Report: Tackling tobacco 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

20/02/2008 Health groups call on Chancellor to prioritise anti-tobacco smuggling measures and sign EU-wide agreements

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

09/07/2004 Marlboro Man does billion dollar deal on smuggling with Europe - ASH demands to know why UK is not included?

March 2004

26/03/2004 Out to BAT

17/03/2004 Chancellor's failure to raise tobacco tax above inflation rate is a missed opportunity to cut the death toll from smoking.

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 HM Customs press release rejecting Commission comlaints about tobacco smuggling strategy

18/12/2001 Ministers swat away European Commission meddling on anti 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

27/07/2001 Smuggling keeps the poor smoking; tobacco companies keep the smugglers busy - comment on study published in BMJ

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