Контрабанда сигарет - такая же древняя профессия, как проституция

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“What you see displayed here has been going on forever,” Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, told reporters at a news conference at his office on Wednesday as he stood before a table set with seized contraband: sheets of thumbnail-size stamps with state insignias, green-on-pink for New Jersey, orange-on-pink for New York; convincing-looking cartons of Chinese Marlboros; and $150,000 in cash. “It’s like prostitution is the oldest profession. I’ve been in and out of untaxed cigarettes and smuggled cigarettes since I was chief of the rackets bureau before you were born.”