TRAFFICKING IN ITALY SIGARET IS MEEN MAFIAROME

Italian Parliament introduced for cigarette smugglers the same punishment as for the mafia:-billion dollar fines for manufacturers, dealers who sell cigarettes, and even for retail buyers. The law, which now sent to the Senate for approval, provides for fines of up to 5 billion lire if the manufacturer would not be able to trace the path of its products. Consumers smuggled cigarettes will pay fines of up to one billion lire. Manufacturers will be required to adopt a system that recognizes the stack of cigarettes in time, and place of manufacture, machine, the country of origin of tobacco, a market addressee and the final first buyer of tobacco products [1 billion lire = 480 thousand dollars].