21.   Some of the illegal emigres have formed gangs that control street sales of smuggled cigarettes.

22.   Some of the illegal residents survive by trading smuggled cigarettes, a business that has triggered bloody feuds among Vietnamese criminal gangs in Berlin.

23.   Some of the illegal emigres have gotten involved in gangs that control street sales of smuggled cigarettes and have fought bloody turf wars in recent years.

24.   They have been fighting in recent years for control of a lucrative trade in smuggled cigarettes, resulting in dozens of deaths.

25.   Boese said most of them were guilty of illicit traffic in smuggled cigarettes.

26.   Thousands of Vietnamese live precariously in eastern Germany by dealing in smuggled cigarettes.

27.   Regarded as illegal immigrants, many of the Vietnamese live precariously as street hawkers of smuggled cigarettes.

28.   Similarly, the stalls that mushroom along the streets offering smuggled cigarettes, alcohol and perfume have no legal standing and there is little effort to put matters right.