DESPITE having had centuries to refine their regulatory efforts and tactics, governments are failing dismally in their efforts to curtail the illicit trade in cigarettes.
An internal PMI corporate affairs document perhaps says it best: ‘[They] play weak defense.’ As a result, cigarette smuggling is now one of the fastest growing forms of organised crime.
Cigarettes are the world’s most widely smuggled legal substance...
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