Dirty Tobacco

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Telita Snyckers. Dirty Tobacco

Foreword

Acronyms

Prologue

PART 1

1. The birth of big tobacco

2. The competition: ‘Cheap and nasty’

3. ‘Bigger than drugs’

4. Dead easy to cheat

5. Smuggling: A rogue’s gallery

6. Jam on their face and still they do nothing

7. They play a weak defense

8. Toothpaste, fish and fig leaves

9. A playbook for profit

PART 2

10. Merchants of disinformation

11. Astroturf, ghost writers and bots

12. Hashtags, headlines and Ipsos

13. Lipstick on a pig

PART 3

14. Captured

15. Political patronage

16. Victims and saviours

17. Sex, lies and videotape

18. From taxman to hitman

20. BAT’s Christmas present to the underworld?

PART 4

21. Avoidance, evasion and glass houses

22. Blowing smoke

23. Inconvenient truths

24. Pebbles for government’s David

25. Too big to fail?

Endnotes

Conclusion

Addendum 1: What Project Honey Badger was investigating

Addendum 2: Where the quoted internal industry documents come from

Addendum 3: Counterfeits

Addendum 4: Illicit whites

Addendum 5: A short history of tobacco smuggling1

Addendum 6: Selected extracts from the BBC Panorama’s story: ‘The secret bribes of big tobacco’1

Addendum 7: Big tobacco’s rogue’s gallery – additional detail

Addendum 8: Email from JTI manager on doing nothing1

Addendum 9: Extracts from affidavits on BAT’s espionage ring in South Africa1

Table of Contents

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by Rob Rose

A devastating playbook dating back decades

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I can’t think of any other scenarios that explain the industry’s persistent history of and association with criminality. Whichever one of the three it is, it means that our governments can have no confidence – at the very least – in industry’s tax and duty declarations. In all three cases the solution is simple: the industry cannot be trusted to regulate itself and requires stronger regulatory oversight and more robust supply chain security measures across the tobacco value chain.

‘At best, tobacco companies are failing to control their supply chain, overproducing in some markets and oversupplying to others in the knowledge their products will end up on the illicit market,’ writes Prof. Anna Gilmore, Director of the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath. ‘At worst, ex-employees insist JTI remained actively involved, describing “rampant smuggling”. BAT staff suspected JTI was facilitating smuggling into the DRC but BAT also clandestinely moved millions of dollars in cash from Uganda to the DRC to buy tobacco leaf which was presumably then illegally exported. BAT cigarettes being distributed by a company implicated in tobacco smuggling were ending up in the illicit market with BAT staff agreeing not to discuss the problem by email.’25

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