
Smoking out contraband cigarettes in Northumberland
Whether they’re left crumpled and fizzling on the sidewalk, or tossed with a flick of a finger out a truck’s window, black market cigarettes can be found anywhere in Ontario.
Just take a look around local shopping centres.
Check the hospital parking lots.
Check the public parks.
Check the high schools.
There’s a rise of cheap tobacco circulating Ontario as some of the province’s 2.2-million smokers are turning to the black market for their nicotine fix. Rather than paying $2.80 of provincial tax on a pack of 20 cigarettes, smokers are picking up plastic, no-name, knock-off cigarettes either designed for First Nation reserves or the U.S. market for merely $8 for 200 cigarettes.
It’s hard to pass up a good deal, right? Especially when it’s a widely viewed as a victimless crime.
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