[kattracks]

"When they did a similar gigantic tax in Canada in 1992-93, they created a $1 billion smuggling industry," Lipsky pointed out the day before the tax took effect. "Two years later, they repealed the tax."

STARTLING SMOKE $IGNALS

[Great Dane]

"Two years later, they repealed the tax."

With the plan to increase the tax again, a little more slowly so people wouldn't notice, they have managed to increase the price to $52 pr carton, pipe tobacco is now $64 for 300 grams.

[BlackRazor]

""When they did a similar gigantic tax in Canada in 1992-93, they created a $1 billion smuggling industry," Lipsky pointed out the day before the tax took effect."

So that's why! I attended college from 1990-1994 in upstate NY, about 30 minutes from the Canadian border. I knew a handful of classmates who would load up a pickup truck with U.S. cigarettes and smuggle them into Canada. As far as I know, they were never caught.