Are cigarettes the underworld's Bitcoin?

By John Silvester
Updated December 16 2017 - 4:03pm, first published 3:54pm

They say the King of Cocaine, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, was once the world's seventh-richest person, who spent $US2500 a month on rubber bands to wrap his cash and every year would lose around $US2 billion in notes damaged by hungry rats or rising damp.