Combatting illicit tobacco trade: What is the role of EU law enforcement training?

摘要

Tobacco’s illicit production and trade pose a serious threat to public health, citizen safety, and, to some extent, national security. This criminal phenomenon undermines governments’ control efforts and anti-smoking strategies to dissuade consumption, by increasing access to tobacco products, made available in the black market at lower prices to young generations or resource-poor individuals. The awareness of illegal cigarette trade as a practice driven by international crime networks and source of hearty revenues goes along with the recognition that illicit tobacco trade is a global problem, which requires cooperation on a worldwide scale.