During the time of the 1970’s, when the mafia became operative again, they were very involved in heroin profits as well as creating an increase in tobacco smuggling. Families were also not as well off at this time and in order to get more money they used kidnapping as a method of fulfilling their families needs. By the time of 1982, the Sicilian mafia had established its authority in the market and had the intention of running an independent distribution network. Once the network had flourished from pizza parlors establishing the heroin distribution network, the Sicilian Mafiosi had total control over purifying, shipping, and distributing heroin making Cosa Nostra more powerful and wealthy then ever. Because the Sicilian Mafia had an overwhelming
