A new smoking bill in South Africa that takes in vaping is said to be a "cut-and-paste job from Geneva" that doesn't take account of local circumstances.Read More
From the point of view of Vietnam, it makes perfect sense to auction the high-quality, illicit cigarettes that it intercepts – and to make sure they end up in a country far away.Read More
If governments believe they can force people to quit smoking completely by increasing the prices of cigarettes, they must believe also that tobacco addiction is not strong.Read More
One of the consequences of tax 'manipulation by certain players' is that South Africa's licit, tax-compliant tobacco sector is losing market share to the illicit sector ‘at an alarming rate’.Read More
Somebody once said that there were two things that you should never watch being made: one was sausages; the other was legislation. That person was clearly right in the case of the former.Read More
It has become known that cigarette smuggling is a major issue in the Philippines because the big tobacco manufacturers are complaining.Read More
It seems inevitable that there will be a consolidation among tobacco-control organizations in countries where tobacco-consumption rates are falling.Read More
It must be difficult to devise rational, cigarette-trade policies when one group puts the illegal trade at more than 40 percent of the market and another group puts it at under nine percent.Read More
The main weapon for battling the illegal trade in tobacco products seems to be locked away in an international protocol that was adopted in November 2012 but that has yet to enter into force.Read More
The illegal trade in cigarettes in Thailand more than doubled recently and illicit cigarettes are expected to become a rising force in the future. It’s predictable given the country’s tax policies.Read More
