“there is fairly strong tabacco smuggling industry”
Smuggling legally produced tobacco from one state or county to another isn’t really the same as illegally growing it.
“there is liquor bootlegging”
Besides the odd guy in Appalachia with a still, I find it hard to believe that people are really bootlegging liquor. Bootlegging meaning making their own illegal liquor, not just smuggling already legally produced liquor around to avoid taxes.
“Bootlegging meaning making their own illegal liquor, not just smuggling already legally produced liquor around to avoid taxes.”
Tell that to JFK’s dad, Joe. There’s tremendous bootlegging of cigarettes from southern states to New York and Massachusetts. Bootlegging is to
“make, distribute, or sell (illicit goods, especially liquor, computer software, or recordings) illegally.”
According to Britannica: “The word apparently came into general use in the Midwest in the 1880s to denote the practice of concealing flasks of illicit liquor in boot tops when going to trade with Indians.”