For years cigarette smuggling and its consequences are underestimated both by politicians and by citizens. But it was illegal and promoted the growth of an underground economy and a black-market trade, making extremely wealthy the criminals associated in this commerce. Although the methodology has changed compared to the past, as today the transport of illicit cigarettes is predominantly by road, Naples and the Campania region are still undoubtedly part of this trade, as the «bancarielli» in some districts of Naples show, and the camorra clans are often still involved in it.