Tobacco underground: The booming global trade in smuggled cigarettes / Center for Public Integrity, 19 October 2008
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/tobacco/pages/introduction/
"The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product. So profitable is the trade that tobacco is the world’s most widely smuggled legal substance. This booming business now stretches from counterfeiters in China and renegade factories in Russia to Indian reservations in New York and warlords in Pakistan and North Africa."