Cigarette Smuggling and War Economies in Central and Eastern Africa Kristof Titeca,1 Luk Joossens,2 Martin Raw3
Research paper Tob Control: first published as 10.1136/tc.2010.041574 on 3 February 2011. Downloaded from Blood cigarettes: cigarette smuggling and war economies in central and eastern Africa Kristof Titeca,1 Luk Joossens,2 Martin Raw3 1Research Foundation-Flanders, ABSTRACT Further, cigarette smuggling is detrimental to Institute of Development Policy Objective To analyse cigarette smuggling practices in health policy5 6 and the WHO Framework and Management, University of central and eastern Africa. Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) empha- Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 2International Expert on Illicit Methods Primary data were gathered during long-term sises the importance for tobacco control of 7 Trade in Tobacco, Framework qualitative field research in which about 400 interviews combating illicit trade. Smuggling undermines tax Convention Alliance, Brussels, were conducted. Analysis of secondary sources included revenue and promotes corruption8; by lowering Belgium academic literature and reports from non-government price, consumption is increased9; and smuggling 3UK Centre for Tobacco Control organisations, multilateral organisations and the press. promotes the development of new markets and Studies, Division of 10 Epidemiology and Public Health, Results Our research suggests that the following factors better exploitation of old ones. For example, University of Nottingham, play an important role in cigarette smuggling in eastern smuggling may lower the price of Western tobacco Nottingham, UK and central Africa: (1) government officials
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