The sale of southern state cigarettes is a revenue stream for organized crime, as well.
We drove to and from Florida earlier this year.We stopped,out of curiosity,at a huge tobacco store somewhere along I-95 in NC...IIRC it's pretty famous.One might suspect that its prices attract smokers living in the Northeast but,IIRC,they had a limit as to how many cartons you could buy.I think the clerk said that the tobacco companies required it.