Word: packs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City, where cigarette taxes have grown from 9? to 23? a pack since 1965, some experts believe that half of all cigarettes sold are contraband. The number of legitimate dealers has been cut in half, and those that are left are either going broke or salting their stocks with untaxed packs. Says Murray Baratz, Secretary-Treasurer of the tobacco distributors' workers' union: "If nothing is done to correct the conditions, there will be in the very near future only bootleggers...
...principal source of bootlegged cigarettes is North Carolina, where tobacco is king and the state tax is only 2? a pack. On one 100-mile stretch of highway, known locally as "Tobacco Road," there are more cigarette dealers than pine trees, and their lots are jammed with out-of-state cars loading up for the run north. Profits average $1.25 a carton and the risk is relatively low: according to police, the odds against getting caught...
...many as 60,000 cartons at a time. As they near their destination, they are transferred to smaller trucks to reduce the risk of detection and the loss in case of seizure. Once in New York, some of the cigarettes are sold at cut rates-often 350 a pack below normal retail prices-by underworld operatives in bars, offices, factories, beauty parlors and apartment buildings. Others are marked with counterfeit tax stamps and distributed to ostensibly legitimate retail dealers. The counterfeiting, say state authorities, is often so expert that it can be detected only by laboratory tests...
They're still trying to pack them into Emerson 210 to hear Laurence Wylie and Robert Rosenthal ("Otherwise known as the Bob and Larry Show," to quote Wylie) give this one. Wylie, of "Civilization of France" fame, attracted a legion of long-standing fans in search of another Soc Sci gut. With no paper and one test besides the final in this oeuvre, they may have found...
...pack of cigarettes Rolled up in his T-shirt sleeve