@danilo@bigzaphod interesting point. we WOULD have said people just enjoy the intangible aspect of knowing someone put their love into making the beverage or whatever
but if it's at the point where they need to smuggle it, it would be cheaper to counterfeit it instead (and to pass counterfeits off as contraband if necessary to get buy-in), and the supply of it is scarce enough that it clearly is not counterfeit