Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health.

This week, we are joined by Dr. Allen Gallagher to uncover the murky world of illicit tobacco products. In this episode, Louis and Allen discuss what illicit trade actually is, tobacco industry involvement in the illicit tobacco trade and methods to tackle tobacco smuggling.

Dr. Allen Gallagher is a research fellow at the Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) at the University of Bath, UK. While interested in various issues related to tobacco control and commercial determinants of health, Allen’s primary research focus to date has been to explore contemporary tobacco industry involvement in the illicit tobacco trade and related policy, with him having given evidence on this topic at the European Parliament and having contributed to the UK chapter of the World Bank’s global review of country experiences confronting illicit tobacco trade.

Sources used in this episode include:

• https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055094
• https://doi.org/10.31389/jied.223
• https://www.tobaccotactics.org/article/illicit-tobacco-trade/
• https://www.tobaccotactics.org/topics/illicit/
• https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/677451548260528135/confronting-illicit-tobacco-trade-a-global-review-of-country-experiences

Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco is a weekly podcast from the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath. It is hosted by Louis Laurence, produced by Kate White and edited by Sacha Goodwin. The production manager is Jacqueline Oliver.

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