WHO, Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases
Global scientific panel on chronic respiratory diseases: Background paper
Briefs & Fact Sheets
14 Oct 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.