A future gone up in smoke | TF1 | Le Droit de savoir

100 million dead in the 20th century. A billion no doubt in the 21st. One smoker upon two dies from the consumption of tobacco. Confronted with this plague, is increasing the price of tobacco the solution to get the public to stop smoking? Doesn’t that just favor the development of an international cigarette smuggling ring? Who are those who organize it and profit from it? What is the State’s attitude confronted to that powerful industry? Organized crime has taken over this profitable traffic which brings in millions of euros. Now each packet of cigarettes will be worth gold. To answer these questions, Florence Kieffer investigated in France, Brussels and the United States. A never-before-seen and fascinating investigation on a powerful and formidable industry which has been poisoning with impunity for fifty years.