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One enterprising mechanic built a split gas tank that could be filled half with gas and half with liquor.[229] Women were known to strap large canisters of alcohol to their legs and then cover them with their dress and full-length coats.[230] The term "bootlegger" was coined to describe those who would conceal alcohol in long boots

In 1970 the state's greatest sources of lost cigarette sales were to other states[62] and to cigarettes "lost in transit, hijacking and thefts."[63] At a 1970 NTTA meeting, Michigan reported 19 cigarette tax violations for the year: 10 for possessing, five for transporting, three for selling, and one "other."[64] At a 1976 NTTA meeting, an analyst concluded that Indiana's per-capita cigarette consumption "confirm[ed] that bootlegging [was] in proportion not only to actual tax rates but also to tax disparity

[224] Ibid., 34

7 However, more research is still needed to understand if experimenting with e-cigarettes leads to regular use of smokable tobacco

Lovenheim, How Far to the Border?: The Extent and Impact of Cross-Border Casual Cigarette Smuggling, National Tax Journal 61:1, (March 2008), R