World Health Organization
Global report on hypertension 2025: high stakes: turning evidence into action
Report
23 Sep 2025
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet shows the evidence of the direct and indirect involvement of the tobacco industry in cigarette smuggling. This fact sheet states that evidence of complicity of the tobacco industry in cigarette smuggling extends to Lebanon and the Middle East, where the illicit tobacco trade has benefited from weak governance.