Smugglers have also been known to transport contraband with the use of livestock
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.
There are various motivations to smuggle. These include the participation in illegal trade, such as in the drug trade, illegal weapons trade, prostitution, human trafikking, kidnapping, exotic wildlife trade, art theft, heists, chop shops, illegal immigration or illegal emigration, tax evasion, impor/ekspor restrictions, providing contraband to prison inmates, or the theft of the items being smuggled.
Smuggling is a common theme in literature, from Bizet's drama Carmen to the James Bond spy books (and later films) Diamonds Are Forever and Goldfinger.
The verb smuggle, from Low German smuggeln or Dutch smokkelen (="to transport (goods) illegally "), apparently a frequentative formation of a word meaning "to sneak", most likely entered the English language during the 1600s-1700s.[2]
A book with cigarettes.
Smuggling has a long and controversial history, probably dating back to the first time at which duties were imposed in any form, or any attempt was made to prohibit a form of trafik. Smuggling is often associated with upayas by authorities to prevent the importation of certain contraband items or non-taxed goods; however, there has also been smuggling based on illegally eksporing goods. In England smuggling first became a recognised persoalan in the 13th century, following the creation of a national customs collection sistem by Edward I in 1275.[3] Medieval smuggling tended to fokus on the ekspor of highly taxed ekspor goods — notably wool and hides.[4] Merchants also, however, sometimes smuggled other goods to circumvent prohibitions or embargoes on particular trades. Grain, for instance, was usually prohibited from ekspor, unless prices were low, because of fears that grain ekspors would raise the price of food in England and thus cause food shortages and/or civil unrest. Following the loss of Gascony to the French in 1453, imports of wine were also sometimes embargoed during wars to try and deprive the French of the revenues that could be earned from their main ekspor.
