International tobacco smuggling

This section outlines the current and historical work done on international smuggling and the legal actions taken against the tobacco companies and their alleged involvement with tobacco smuggling.

Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) have agreed a protocol to fight the global trade in illicit tobacco. You can read about this on the FCA website here.

• Cost Benefit Analysis of the FCTC

  This report assesses the impact of introducing the measures currently proposed under the FCTC draft protocol on smuggling.

• The world's response

  This section outlines the international response to tobacco smuggling, since 1998.

• JTI Smuggling Agreement

  JTI Smuggling Agreement 2007 - Key features of the agreement on smuggling between the European Commission, JTI and 26 of the 27 Member States.

• Briefing note on Gallaher & JTI

  ASH Briefing on Gallaher & Japan Tobacco International.  Dec. 2007

• Philip Morris and EU agreement

  Philip Morris International anti-smuggling agreement with the European Commission.

• Racketeering Legal Action

  In 2002 four major tobacco companies: British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and Japan Tobacco International, faced legal action.

• British American Tobacco

  In 2000 British American Tobacco (BAT) was forced to release millions of pages of internal documents as a result of litigation in the United States.