we sometimes refer to commercial smuggling as "bootlegging" or "large-scale" smuggling
While the retail price per pack of cigarettes is highest in Tobacco Nation at $5.48 per pack, the percentage of an average persons income spent per pack is quite low, when compared to these 10 low- and middle-income countries. Framing it in this context, cigarette prices in Tobacco Nation are relatively cheap, and Tobacco Nation residents are more financially able to purchase a pack of cigarettes than residents in countries such as India, Indonesia, Brazil and Mexico
Kermah, D., Shaheen, M., Pan, D
Tobacco companies lobby policymakers, argue that menthol bans are unconstitutional, threaten to withdraw business operations from the country in question and use third parties to interfere in regulation