1.   And despite markups by dealers, smugglers and salespeople, contraband cigarettes can still be sold cheaply and profitably because the savings from evading taxes can be so great.

2.   By day, apart from a shell-cratered main street where contraband cigarettes and liquor are peddled by smugglers, the streets are silent, deserted.

3.   Contraband cigarettes currently in the U.S. market are largely the result of interstate smuggling driven by vastly different levels of state tobacco taxes.

4.   Coltabaco in recent years lost sales to contraband foreign cigarettes.

5.   Contraband cigarettes are a particularly prickly issue for other governments because of the loss of taxes.

6.   In a statement on Tuesday, Philip Morris said it had always been interested in helping governments fight the contraband cigarette trade.

7.   Inmate Stafford, appalled at the price of contraband cigarettes, used the ban as an impetus to stop smoking.

8.   Now they test their survival skills by sellingeihions of contraband cigarettes.

9.   Smuggling is a subtext, and no evidence about contraband cigarettes was introduced in court.

10.   Sidi, a Mauritanian who scrapes together a living by selling contraband cigarettes outside a Madrid department store, is worried about his supplies.