NATIVE CANADIAN COMMUNITIES LOOK TO HOME-GROWN TOBACCO REGULATION TO CONTEST CONTRABAND CLAIMS
November 1st, 2016
TOBACCO has been grown, processed, smoked and traded within and between native Canadian and American communities for centuries, so it is no surprise that attempts to restrict how their reserves and reservations make and sell tobacco cause upset.
But in Canada, with tobacco control rules on health warnings, advertising and tobacco content in these First Nations jurisdictions often weak or non-existent, and tax and duty not collected on sales, there has been pressure on the federal and provincial government to crack down on what police and anti-tobacco campaigners ...
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