Revealed: how British American Tobacco exploited war zones to sell cigarettes | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/18/british-american-tobacco-cigarettes-africa-middle-east
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British American Tobacco (BAT) has promoted sales of its cigarettes in some of the most fragile, war-torn and unstable countries of Africa and the Middle East, documents seen by the Guardian show.
While civilians were being killed and cities ravaged by violence, BAT pursued opportunities to grow its markets.
The documents describe how cartons of cigarettes were distributed to traders hidden in black bags in Somalia after Al-Shabaab banned sales and threatened punishments under Sharia law between late 2008 and early 2009.