While cigarette smuggling primarily affects cigarette manufacturers, Brazilian leaf dealers are facing an entirely different set of challenges. The U.S. dollar—the currency in which they are paid for their exports—has lost some 20 Read More
Staff Writer
February 20, 2008
Last night, we had dinner with a representative of a major leaf merchant who was too diplomatic to question our sanity but impressed on us to be very careful as we probe the black market. Read More
Staff Writer
February 20, 2008
I knew Santa Cruz had a sizable population of German heritage, but there’s something bizarre about speaking German with a tanned taxi driver while zipping past palm trees in balmy 32-degrees-Celsius (90 degrees F) weather Read More
Staff Writer
February 19, 2008
While Paraguay obviously has the manufacturing capacity, it is not a major leaf-producing country. Where does it obtain its tobacco, and are leaf producers in a position to help curtail the illegal cigarette trade? To Read More
Staff Writer
February 18, 2008
If you are looking for a bargain, Rio’s Centro Uruguaiana is the place to be. Normally expensive brand-name sneakers, faux designer purses and wristwatches sell at rock-bottom prices—as do cigarettes. Telling fake from Read More
Staff Writer
February 17, 2008
The insignia thief must have turned himself in, because we’re allowed off the plane. But while the flight attendant has her decorations back, we’re without luggage. It’s still in Miami, where we Read More
Staff Writer
February 17, 2008
We haven’t even landed in Latin America yet, and we’re already being threatened with detention—not for investigating the counterfeit cigarette trade, but for theft. As the plane descends, a terse flight attendant Read More
Staff Writer
February 11, 2008
“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” The leaf merchant was not impressed with our suggestion to track down a cigarette counterfeiter in Paraguay and interview him for an upcoming article in Tobacco Read More
Staff Writer
December 3, 2007
Global drive brands thrive Volume sales by British American Tobacco during the nine months to the end of September, at 504 billion, were 1 percent down on those of the nine months to Sept. 30, 2006. The fall in Read More
Staff Writer
September 4, 2007
Sustainable Trading claims the “first true innovation” in otherwise stale market. Sustainable Trading Ltd. (STL) has introduced a line of self-adhesive tobacco rolling papers in the United Kingdom. The company says its introduction, called VPapers, Read More
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