Editing Mafia (section)

===Smuggling boom===
The 1950s and 1960s were difficult times for the mafia, but in the 1970s their rackets grew considerably more lucrative, particularly smuggling. The most lucrative racket of the 1970s was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_smuggling cigarette smuggling].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-67">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-67 [67]]</sup> Sicilian and Neapolitan crime bosses negotiated a joint monopoly over the smuggling of cigarettes to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples].

When [[Heroin|heroin]] refineries operated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsican_mafia Corsican gangsters] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseilles Marseilles] were shut down by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France French] authorities, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine morphine] traffickers looked to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily Sicily]. Starting in 1975, Cosa Nostra set up heroin refineries across the island.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DickieCosaNostra357_68-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-DickieCosaNostra357-68 [68]]</sup> As well as refining heroin, ''Cosa Nostra'' also sought to control its distribution. Sicilian mafiosi moved to the United States to personally control distribution networks there, often at the expense of their U.S. counterparts. Heroin addiction in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America] surged<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed]'']</sup>, and seizures by police increased dramatically. By 1982, the Sicilian Mafia controlled about 80% of the heroin trade in the north-eastern United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DickieCosaNostra359_69-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-DickieCosaNostra359-69 [69]]</sup> Heroin was often distributed to street dealers from Mafia-owned pizzerias, and the revenues could be passed off as restaurant profits (the so-called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Connection_Trial Pizza Connection]).