“Buy a truckload of cigarettes in Virginia and sell them in New York.  Yeah, it’s illegal. But that’s how much can be made from selling a tractor trailer’s worth (that’s 800 cases, each holding 600 packs of cigarettes) of low-tax Virginia cigarettes in high-tax New York, based on estimates from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.   And that’s exactly what criminals are doing.  In 2011, more than 60% of all cigarettes sold in New York were smuggled in from another state, according to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank. That’s up from about 36% in 2006.”

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/16/news/economy/cigarette-smuggling/index.html

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