IRAN FACES MAJOR TOBACCO SMUGGLING PROBLEM
March 1st, 2010
BY PAUL COCHRANE, KARRYN MILLER and KEITH NUTHALL
IRAN may be a democratic theocracy, but it certainly does not take the moral high ground when it comes to tobacco smuggling. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has in the past identified Iran as being one of only two countries in the world where more than half the cigarette market share comprises contraband. The other country was (in an assessment of 2006 data) Myanmar, the south-east Asian state run by a military often accused of links with drugs smugglers. It's not good company to keep.
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