Tobacco Underground

Tobacco Underground

The world’s most widely smuggled legal substance

The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product.

By Marina Walker Guevara

Oct 20, 2008

Tobacco Underground

Resources: Tobacco Smuggling

By ICIJ

Oct 20, 2008

Tobacco Underground

eBook: Tobacco Underground

By ICIJ

Feb 27, 2010

Working with reporters in more than a dozen countries, ICIJ is charting the frontlines of the illicit traffic in cigarettes.
Relying on interviews with insiders and thousands of internal industry documents, reporters pieced together how smuggling played a key role in big tobacco’s strategy to boost sales and increase market share.