Stock Photo - Jan. 01, 1973 - A Fat Year for Cigarettes Smugglers: In spite of intensified efforts by the Italian Customs the Cigarette Smugglers at the Swiss - Italian border has strongly increased in 1973. There have been approximately 15 million Kilograms smuggled from Switzerland to Italy worth about 330 Milliards of Lire. A heavy loss for the Italian Tobacco State Monopoly. One of the dark patches at the Swiss-Italian border where the smugglers bring their precious good on the other side. two of the smugglers about to cross into Italy with another batch of cigarettes. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)