Who? And yeah, that is why that dude got choked out and died. Had he been selling pot the po po wouldn't have messed with him. He was chipping the tax man.
That isn't near what it used to be. Nothing like the market in NYC on smokes. You mess with em on that and they will take you down.
Haven't stolen cigs always been a mafia thing? And there used to be stores here in my hometown that sold loosies.