Source: Julia Ng, “ICA reports 83% jump in smuggling cases at checkpoints in 2007,” Channel News Asia, January 24, 2008,(accessed: January 28, 2008)

Source: Noor Mohd Aziz, “46% jump in number of cigarette, tobacco smuggling cases in 2006,” Channel News Asia, February 1, 2007,(accessed: February 2, 2007).

Source:  Noor Mohd Aziz, “46% jump in number of cigarette, tobacco smuggling cases in 2006,” Channel News Asia, February 1, 2007,(accessed: February 2, 2007).

Source: AP, ” Singapore crackdown on cigarette smuggling,” Star (Malaysia), August 28, 2006.

Between May 2003 and February 2008,$752.5 million of art was stolen from museums and private collections worldwide.
Source: Associated Press, “List of Notable Art Heists,” Washington Post, February 11, 2008.

Source: Reuters, ” India to curb smuggling of Buddhist relics,” Scotsman, October 17, 2006.

Source: Peter F. Watson and Cecilia Todeschini, The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, (New York: PublicAffairs, 2006), pg. 30.

Source: Tom Mueller, ” To Sketch a Thief,” New York Times Magazine, December 17, 2006.

The BBC has an article on the cigarette smuggling industry in the United Kingdom.
From BBC News:
The trade in illegal cigarettes in England is big business.
Customs officers seized more than 50 million illicit cigarettes and nearly 4,250 kilos of hand rolling tobacco in the West Midlands area in 2007.
Of these hauls, 70% were found to be [...]

With a tax proposal that would make a pack of cigarette cost $9, New York officials are worried about various methods to smuggle cigarettes.
From the AP:
Cigarettes are sold tax free on tribal lands in New York, and the savings are eye-popping. Once lawmakers approve the state’s latest hike, crafted last week,
smokers will be able to [...]