21.   Previously, contraband cigarettes and alcohol were the main smuggled goods that customs officers confiscated on the route through Finland to its eastern neighbor.

22.   Spain says Gibraltar is a haven for contraband cigarettes and hashish that are dropped off on the Spanish mainland by smugglers using the high-powered low, black boats.

23.   Smuggling contraband cigarettes and liquor is believed to yield a multimillion-dollar profit.

24.   The Naples-based Camorra runs extortion and smuggling rackets involving guns, contraband cigarettes and drugs.

25.   The scope of contraband cigarette trafficking was underlined last month when the head of a state criminal court in neighboring Switzerland was arrested on corruption charges.

26.   He called for a campaign to stem the flow of contraband cigarettes, and said his company was planning to diversify local production to curb demand for foreign cigarettes.

27.   In recent months a number of Vietnamese linked with trafficking contraband cigarettes have been killed around Berlin.

28.   Bonn has also begun to crack down on Vietnamese gangs selling contraband cigarettes.

29.   Crime gangs had abandoned the more high-risk illicit drug smuggling to concentrate on the high-profit, low-risk contraband cigarette trade.

30.   The uprising by native Taiwanese was sparked by the abuse by an official against a contraband cigarette seller.