Gibraltar chases tobacco smugglers....
It's a job for adventuresome young Andalusians
in a region of Spain where unemployment tops 35%.
They buy the cigarettes from tiny British Gibraltar
and whisk them away to Spain where they sell for
twice as much. These smugglers make about 20-50
euros a trip ($26-65) for bringing in 1000-5000
cigarettes. Bizet's opera, Carmen, was about the
time honored tradition of tobacco smuggling through
the mountains of Spain...
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