On: The importance of cash in a technological society

[Kamq]

Are there a lot of fakes in the sense that they don't contain nicotine? Because that's the main utility in cigarettes.

Also, how is tax stamp trafficking relevant to a grey-market barter system?

[ta988 → Kamq]

Fakes in the sense of much lower quality tobacco, often mixed with cheaper materials to bulk them and in lower amounts. So people get a product at black market price that is not the expected one.

Tax stamp trafficking is used to cover for those fakes as it make them look real, and it is also used to avoid getting arrested for selling contraband.