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657 billion cigarettes a year sold on black market
San Francisco News.Net
Saturday 4th July, 2009
The global tobacco industry is under attack from pirates that are ripping the heart out of cigarette sales.
Representatives from 130 countries gathered in Geneva this week to discuss the problem.
The International Union against Tobacco and Lung Disease says says organized crime has infiltrated the industry, and the situation is so bad that one in 9 cigarettes are sold illegally.
This equates to 657 billion smokes annually.
In tax revenue alone the cost is in excess of $40 billion.  Email this story to a friend
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Kin
07-04-09, 07:05 AM |
657 billion cigarettes a year sold on black market
and the point is?
So They lost $40 billion of their immoral earnings?
Criminal Organisations will always take advantage of morally corrupt governments and replace legalised extortion with criminal smuggling.
I’s not rocket science!
Nor is the solution!
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johndoe
07-04-09, 10:23 AM |
Blame Anti-tobacco
No the criminals are in anti-tobacco. This industry with its Pharmacuetical masters make big tobacco look like a corner shop. The marginalisation and demonisation of tobacco use has caused the black market. If governments were more sensible and realistic about tobacco policy, none of this would happen. I havent paid a penny in tobacco tax, since the smoking ban- why should I?, i get all mine from abroad. However, there are those who dont go abroad, or are 16-17, who choose the black market, where counterfeit cigarettes are sold.Not exactly a benefit for the nation’s health is it?
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johndoe
07-04-09, 10:41 AM |
Blame Anti-tobacco
No the criminals are in anti-tobacco. This industry with its Pharmacuetical masters make big tobacco look like a corner shop. The marginalisation and demonisation of tobacco use has caused the black market. If governments were more sensible and realistic about tobacco policy, none of this would happen. I havent paid a penny in tobacco tax, since the smoking ban- why should I?, i get all mine from abroad. However, there are those who dont go abroad, or are 16-17, who choose the black market, where counterfeit cigarettes are sold.Not exactly a benefit for the nation’s health is it?
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DaveA
07-04-09, 04:58 PM |
So obvious
It is anti tobacco’s long term aim to make smoking illegal, Avril Doyle MEP has even given a date 2025. If you treat smokers and smoking with high taxes, marginalise then in society then the conditions will imitate the sale of illegal drugs like heroin. Alas the bigotry of the anti smokers knows no bounds, but they will have to learn the hard way.
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Bababooey
07-07-09, 07:02 AM |
Keep Taxing It
Then soon it will be 9 out of 10 sold illegally. Smokers are the cause of all the problems in the world. Keep taxing them dirty smokers and help save the world.
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