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Up into the 1970s bootleg cigarettes and hijacking cigarette trucks was a pretty common thing. I suppose it fell out of favor when the large scale practitioners of the game moved on to some sort of drug business.
A friend of mine has family who live near an Indian reservation. A few years back he told me about a large federal raid with multiple arrests for moving large quantities of untaxed cigarettes through the reservation. I believe that you are allowed to purchase a couple of cartons for personal use to take home after your trip to the casino. If you are suspected of taking more, you will be stopped and your car searched as soon as you leave the reservation. The penalties have made what was once a good way to make a few bucks not worth the potential stay in the graybar hotel.
During my last couple years of cigarette smoking I got my fix at a reservation about 10 miles up the road. The tribe not only sold brand name smokes for considerably less than you’d pay in town, it also operated a cigarette factory, which made crummy smokes, but they were inexpensive and delivered a nicotine fix, which is a cigarette’s primary duty. So I smoked ’em.
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