Illegal Tobacco Trade Map

View our interactive map on our website showing illegal tobacco trade hotspots around the world, and find out what we're doing at BAT to fight the problem.

The black market in tobacco involves criminal gangs producing counterfeit cigarettes, cross-border smuggling and large-scale tax evasion. With weak penalties for criminals, poor border controls, low arrest rates and tobacco taxes creating disparity between neighbouring countries, it’s a problem that’s set to grow.