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We are all familiar with narcotics being smuggled , and the Customs Service has been dealing with that for years , but we are seeing things like these . Within that relatively minor ( or major ) distortion , markets continue to work unless the tax can be avoided ( smuggling , black market ) . The EU recently announced that , in order to avoid a lawsuit over cigarette smuggling , Philip Morris International has agreed to implement a series of anti-smuggling measures and pay up to $ 1.25 billion over the course of 12 years . " It seems to me that " hostile acts " might include money laundering , drug smuggling , even credit card fraud . We are also seeing counterfeit drugs being smuggled , which is a somewhat new thing . Millions earned in drug smuggling , human trafficking and the illegal arms trade are tracked down with all technological means available . Mumcu , who reported on Islamic fundamentalism , drug and gun smuggling , and the Kurdish separatist movement , among other subjects , was a staunch supporter of the secular principles of Kemal Ataturk , the founder of modern Turkey .