Cigarette smuggler can make $2 million profit from truckload of cigarettes

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under United States, consumer |

In an article in the Washington Post, it is reported that a cigarette smuggler is able to gain a profit of $2 million for smuggling a truckload of cigarettes within the United States.

Source: Sari Horwitz, “Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism,” Washington Post, June 8, 2004, pg A01, (accessed:April 20, 2006).

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