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Archive a Smoking Gun for Tobacco Firm

By on November 23, 2003

Why British American released papers showing possible links to contraband sales remains a mystery.

GUILDFORD, England — This handsome town south of London is steeped in history. An 11th-century castle built by William the Conqueror overlooks the village center from a lovely hilltop park. The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better ... Read more »

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Cigarettes, Greed and Betrayal: An Insider’s Saga

By on November 10, 2002

Rogue employee or Big Tobacco fall guy? Les Thompson tells tales from the vortex of the Canadian smuggling scandal.
Les Thompson was a self-made man. He grew up poor in a small town in Ontario and got no further than high school. Still, he fashioned a nice career in the cigarette business, ... Read more »

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Tobacco Case Judge Had Industry Ties

By on September 9, 2002

Courts: Legal experts say Lewis Kaplan was not required to disclose his background or to disqualify himself in cigarette smuggling suit.
Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan was part of the 2-1 majority that gave the tobacco industry one of its biggest legal victories in recent years–a ruling upholding dismissal of Canada’s cigarette ... Read more »

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Tobacco Memos Show Overseas Price Fixing

By on September 17, 1998

Tobacco Memos Show Overseas Price Fixing
Philip Morris and British-American Tobacco, the world’s two biggest tobacco companies, secretly joined forces to fix cigarette prices and divide markets in Argentina, Venezuela and other Latin American countries, according to internal documents that explicitly describe the deals and the involvement of some of the ... Read more »

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