The mutual impacts of culture and smuggling

Smuggling is considered as an economic crime regarding its negative impacts on the national economics. Fighting against smuggling is one of the most important issues to be given priority and various departments are involved in this proplems. Although the main factors of this problem must be sought in trade and commerce sections, the deep and big roots of this problem should not be ignored. Surely gaining access to knowledge of these factors can help to find the roots of smuggling and solve it fundamentally. Although most efforts have been focused on the study of negative impacts of smugglingon the national economics, the extension of this phenomenon will result in numerous impacts in the cultural field. Generally speaking, smuggling is a destructive issue and it is necessary to have a critical confrontation with it.