[fanfan]

Thanks for the pings, She Lion and Springman

Freep a poll!

[SheLion]

Thanks for the pings, She Lion and Springman

You bet!

[Springman]

Your welcome.

[conservative in nyc]

Akwesasne? So this cigarette ring has been brought to you by the St. Regis Indian tribe? If that's the case, why doesn't the article mention it?

I think that members of certain Indian tribes get the right to bypass customs checks at the border by treaty. That makes their reservations ripe for smuggling stuff from the U.S. to Canada and vice versa.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Am I right in saying that there is a lot of duty cigarettes in Canada?

Here in Ireland I think the price of a pack of cigarettes is about 80% tax.

One of the many ways that Sinn Fein/IRA fund their politico-criminal conspiracy against Irish democracy is through contraband cigarettes - if my government wanted to pull the rug under IRA's empire, they should cut the tax to normal VAT like most other products (they should also do the same with alcohol and fuel - Sinn Fein/IRA smuggle those things, too).

Are governments everywhere willfully unaware of the fact that high taxes on cigarettes, alcohol and oil a waste of resources?