Recently Released Market Study: Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products 2012: Will the New Protocol Prove Effective?
National governments as well as global and regional bodies such as the WHO, the FCTC, OLAF and the tobacco industry are making the biggest concerted effort ever to fight illicit trade in tobacco, including a new Protocol involving tracking and tracing technology and improved levels of international cooperation. But do tax stamps and bar codes stand a chance of even slowing the growth of illicit trade, buoyed as it is by increasing taxation and disparities in unit prices around the...
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