1.   Aggressive audits have demonstrated that European security personnel routinely pick out twice as many contraband items as their American counterparts.

2.   Contraband items will be added to and deleted from the list as time goes on.

3.   In Cuba itself, contraband items from cigarettes to computers are allowed in routinely and sold even in government-run shops.

4.   Since the ban, tobacco has by far become the leading contraband item.

5.   Many isolated coastal villages are used by smugglers to bring drugs, contraband items and even humans into the Philippines because they are difficult to guard.

6.   Technology is used to scan the insides of containers, and specially trained dogs search for traces of narcotics and other contraband items.

7.   The contraband items were hidden in the luggage compartment of a Volvo van with Italian license plates, police announced.