Slate has an interesting article about the multibillion dollar cigarette black market . It is centered in Yunxiao, which until very recently was just another Chinese backwater. It currently supplies almost 400 billion cigarettes a year, which are produced by 200+ cigarette factors which are creatively hidden: “Most factories are underground,” a Yunxiao cigarette broker confided in hushed tones. “They’re under buildings, unimaginably well-hidden, with secret doors from the basements.” Even the

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