Driver Starts Fire On Highway

Cigarettes like everything else,,,, okay maybe not alcohol, have always been expensive here, so smuggling ciggys have always been a thing, in the old days smugglers would run high speed motorboats out of Poland and Germany filled to the brink with cigarettes.
Much like in Prohibition USA back in the day, but in the case of Denmark we talk about the 50 - 60 - 70ties
Canada had Prohibition start and end by a few years from what the states had. Ontario had more restrictive laws than rest of the country, but even then, breweries and distilleries could produce a product, they just couldn't sell it Canada so it was sold in the states where it was legal. When the states and Canada had prohibition, alcohol was still produces. And when it was legal to consume in canada, again it was sold in the states, but this time smuggled. Some of the distillery billionaires in Canada had a boom time during that time.

My dad knew someone who was shot at by the american authorities smuggling whisky across the Detroit river. Apparently he decided to stop after that.

My favorite Canadian brewery, sleeman's advertises it did business with Al Capone. Anyway, it was closed for decades after prohibition ended, as it first claimed it lost its books and then refused to pay taxes on its bootlegging.

Latest ciggy case is from 19 and are about smuggling of 14 million cigarettes, and defrauding the Danish government on its 20 million DKKr tax cut from the sale of those.

We legalized pot in 2018 with the argument it would squeeze out the black market. The corporations that are selling it legally are laying people off as demand was greatly overestimated and there is STILL a black market.
 
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