Tobacco Grey Market in the Western Balkans

Abstract

The Balkan route is historically a smuggling corridor, and tobacco illegal trade flourished during transition and conflicts at the end of the 20th century. This paper contributes to the scarce attitudinal studies and limited knowledge about the tobacco grey market by surveying the opinion of citizens in seven Western Balkan countries. The typology of citizens in the region reveals that the most repressive attitudes and opinion that curbing grey tobacco market will reduce smoking come from...