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Overview

By Marina Walker Guevara

Tobacco is the most widely smuggled legal substance, and it's trafficking fuels organized crime and corruption

Terrorism and tobacco

By Kate Willson

Extremists, insurgents turn to cigarette smuggling

China’s Marlboro Country

By Te-Ping Chen

A massive underground industry makes China the world leader in counterfeit cigarettes
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Smuggling made easy

Landlocked Paraguay emerges as a top producer of contraband tobacco

When cracking down seems impossible

By Marina Walker Guevara and Mabel Rehnfeldt

Paraguay's corruption fuels a criminal economy

Big tobacco’s New York black market

By Marina Walker Guevara and Kate Willson

How America’s top cigarette firms fueled a billion-dollar underground trade
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SMOKE2U

By Te-Ping Chen

Tobacco sales take off in cyberspace

E-cigarette maker fires up lobbying efforts

By Reity O'Brien

Manufacturers of smoking alternative faces new government scrutiny.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act":

"… “FDA administration of P.L. 111-31,” a tobacco control law, and “the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act,” offering no additional details. But the leading e-cigarette manufactu …"