Talk:Cigarette smuggling

Canada and Mexico

I added a small section on Canada, the information is from a few years ago. If someone has some more recent information it might be better. Also, a lot of cigarettes come from Mexico to the U.S. since the border patrol is normally looking for other types of drugs. Someone should add some info on that. I don't know how it compares to inter-country smuggling in the U.S., that would be an interesting comparison.

Since Canada decriminalized marijuana and has raised taxes on tobacco, does that mean that people are going to start selling baggies of tobacco at concerts, and then it will get popular among artists and Canadian jazz musicians before making it to mainstream culture where tobacco cartels will have all out wars on the Indian reservations between the two countries?Editfromwithout (talk) 20:57, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Proposed merge

It has been proposed that Illicit cigarette trade be merged with this article because of content overlap. — O'Dea (talk) 18:57, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

I agree! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toxictrade (talk • contribs) 02:02, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

If you agree, then why did you create the separate and redundant Illicit cigarette trade article? You should simply have incorporated any useful new content into Cigarette smuggling. If you agree, why did you remove the {{Merge to}} template twice from the article you created? If you agree, you should undertake the task of merging them. — O'Dea (talk) 08:14, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

The articles need merging and cleaning up as well, as the illicit cigarette trade article has issues as well satusuro 08:31, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

• SUPPORT merging the two articles into one, and cleaning up the result. Single topic with multiple ramifications. N2e (talk) 13:27, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose - Different definitions. The trade article also refers to internal (domestic) trade, and illegal cigarettes. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:08, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support the merge - Differences in definition are trivial and the scope of both pages can easily be included in one page, thereby also removing duplication/overlap. Klbrain (talk) 11:05, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done

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Picture of the day

A book used for cigarette smuggling, on display at the main customs office in Munich, Germany. This practice generally involves the illicit transportation of cigarettes or cigars from one place to another with higher taxation on sale and consumption, and is thus a form of tax evasion.Photograph: High Contrast