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January 1, 2016

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Historically, the tobacco industry has benefited from cigarette smuggling and has even participated in it directly. Manufacturers deliberately looked the other way when the tobacco is smuggled, or even flood the markets themselves with illicit sticks.

Source: M. Stoklosa. “Is the Illicit Cigarette Market Really Growing? The Tobacco Industry's Misleading Math Trick.” Tobacco Control 2016;25:360–361. Available from: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/3/360; see also Chen J, McGhee SM, Townsend J, et al "Did the tobacco industry inflate estimates of illicit cigarette