The Levinson family says Robert was working as a private investigator looking into cigarette smuggling in Iran when he went missing.

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According to his family, Levinson was working as a private investigator looking into cigarette smuggling and disappeared during a business trip there.

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The anti-cigarette smuggling bill Mr. Weiner sponsored was aimed at preventing online cigarette vendors from selling to people who weren't paying local taxes or were underage.

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Levinson, a retired FBI agent, was working as a private investigator on a cigarette smuggling case when he traveled to the Iranian resort island Kish in March 2007.

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Italian authorities have investigated Dukanovic for allegations of cigarette smuggling.

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An inquiry by Brazil's Congress linked him to cigarette smuggling.

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Some seem to draw on his Washington experience, such as making more use of a federal cigarette-smuggling law.

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Some ideas seem to draw on his Washington experience, such as making more use of a federal cigarette-smuggling law.

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There was a realisation, too, that spending money wisely in the Balkans is not quite the same as spending it freely: if the aim is to keep Mr Djukanovic in power, it must go to pay the pensions of deserving Montenegrins (including the Serb-minded) and so on, not to finance cigarette-smuggling by corrupt members of the regime.

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There is "no good evidence" that standardised cigarette packs would lead to more smuggling, a group of MPs and peers say.

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