Tabaksmokkelary: lae risiko, enorme wins

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Tabaksmokkelary: lae risiko, enorme wins

Dis maklik om met sigarette te smokkel. Snuffelhonde kan nie onderskei tussen wettige en onwettige tabak nie, en minder as 1% van die verbode vrugte word wêreldwyd onderskraap. Met ander woorde, die verdediging is vrot, skryf TELITA SNYCKERS in Dirty Tobacco, wat in Junie by Tafelberg verskyn. Dié uittreksel word geplaas in die oorspronklike Engels.

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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