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Top 5 Offense Groups (Groups Defined)	Penalty Total	Number of Records
financial offenses	$634,443,685	3
safety-related offenses	$310,363,720	17
competition-related offenses	$172,200,000	3
consumer-protection-related offenses	$4,750,000	1
employment-related offenses	$77,900	3

Top 5 Primary Offense Types	Penalty Total	Number of Records
economic sanction violation	$634,348,685	2
tobacco litigation	$310,335,000	13
price-fixing or anti-competitive practices	$172,200,000	3
consumer protection violation	$4,750,000	1
tax violations	$95,000	1

Notes: Parent-subsidiary linkages are based on relationships current as of the latest revision listed in the Update Log, which may vary from what was the case when a violation occurred. The penalty totals are adjusted to account for the fact that the individual entries below may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. The totals are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the list below.

Links: For a summary of this company's regulatory penalties in more than 50 other countries, see its Violation Tracker Global summary page here.

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Individual Penalty Records:

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Company	Primary Offense Type	Year	Agency	Penalty Amount
British American Tobacco	economic sanction violation	2023	DOJ_NATSEC	$629,000,000
Brown & Williamson Tobacco	tobacco litigation	2003	MULTI-AG	$150,000,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company	tobacco litigation	2020	FL-AG	$92,000,000
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.	price-fixing or anti-competitive practices	2003	private lawsuit-federal	$69,600,000
Lorillard Tobacco Co.	price-fixing or anti-competitive practices	2003	private lawsuit-federal	$69,600,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco	price-fixing or anti-competitive practices	2005	private lawsuit-federal	$33,000,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.	tobacco litigation	2004	CA-AG	$17,250,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company	tobacco litigation	2002	CA-AG	$14,800,000
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.	tobacco litigation	2011	MS-AG	$8,100,000
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp.	tobacco litigation	2015	MS-AG	$7,500,000
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.	tobacco litigation	2015	MS-AG	$7,500,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco	tobacco litigation	2011	DOJ_CIVIL	$6,250,000
British American Tobacco p.l.c.	economic sanction violation	2023	OFAC	$5,348,685
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company	tobacco litigation	2006	CA-AG	$5,000,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.	consumer protection violation	2016	private lawsuit-federal	$4,750,000
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.	tobacco litigation	2004	MULTI-AG	$1,460,000
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company	tobacco litigation	2001	MULTI-AG	$175,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.	tobacco litigation	2010	CT-AG	$150,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company	tobacco litigation	2010	MD-AG	$150,000
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation	tax violations	2007	ATTTB	$95,000
Lorillard Tobacco	labor relations violation	2009	NLRB	$39,900
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.	labor relations violation	2003	NLRB	$30,000
R. J. Reynolds	solid waste violation	2009	NC-ENV	$26,250
LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY	workplace safety or health violation	2015	OSHA	$11,250
Lorillard Tobacco Company	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$8,000
AMERICAN SNUFF COMPANY LLC	workplace safety or health violation	2017	OSHA	$6,825
KENTUCKY BIOPROCESSING INC	workplace safety or health violation	2017	OSHA	$5,500
SANTA FE NATURAL TOBACCO COMPANY, INC.	workplace safety or health violation	2006	OSHA	$5,145
BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP.	environmental violation	2000	EPA	$5,000