The outgoing chair of the OECD Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade says that compared with drugs, smuggling tobacco is low-risk, high reward. A shipping container packed with tobacco can be obtained for $100,000 and resold for $2 million, with penalties paling in comparison to the lengthy prison terms handed down to narcotics traffickers, said Luna
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