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Received: 9 May 2018

Accepted: 11 September 2018

First Online: 19 November 2018

Authors’ information

: Benoît Gomis is a political scientist focusing on organized crime and terrorism, and a Research Associate in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. Natalia Carrillo Botero is an anthropologist specializing in Latin American Studies, and was a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University during this study. Roberto Magno Iglesias is an economist specialized in tobacco taxation and the illicit tobacco trade. Phil Shepherd is a professor of Management and International Business at Florida International University, and began studying the global cigarette industry in Latin America in the 1970s. Kelley Lee is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University.

: This project received approval from the SFU Research Ethics Board, File Number [2012 s0556].

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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