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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 31 Tobacco exports, imports and smuggling |
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| | Tobacco exports, imports and smuggling: Smuggling |
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| | Northern Brands International, an RJR International affiliate, pleaded guilty to charges |
| | that it smuggled cigarettes into Canada to avoid paying $2.5 million in U.S. excise |
| | taxes. The company agreed to pay a $15 million fine for its role in a scheme to |
| | transfer cigarettes out of Canada ostensibly for export to Eastern Europe, then |
| | smuggling them back into Canada through an Indian reservation in New York state to |
| | avoid U.S. excise taxes. US Attorney Thomas Maroney accused RJR of setting up |
| | Northern Brands specifically for smuggling. |
| | New York Times, December 23, 1999, p. A1 |
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| | About 30% of internationally exported cigarettes, 355 billion in all, are lost to |
| | smuggling, a far higher percentage than most internationally traded consumer |
| | products. |
| | Curbing the Epidemic, p. 63 |
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| | About 30% of cigarettes smoked in Canada in the early 1990's were smuggled in, |
| | including contraband cigarettes accounting for up to 75% of the market in Quebec. |
| | Because of this, Prime Minister Jean Chretien slashed federal tobacco taxes by $11 |
| | per carton in February 1994. |
| | JAMA, March 2, 1994, p. 647 |
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| | By early 1994, two-thirds of the cigarettes sold in Quebec and one-third of those sold |
| | in Ontario were contraband. In February, the federal government in Ottawa cut the tax, |
| | and the price of a "legal" carton of 200 cigarettes sold in Quebec fell from $47 to |
| | $22.73 overnight. Public health authorities warn that despite cutting smuggling from |
| | the United States, the price decreases will induce additional 245,000 Canadian |
| | teenagers to begin smoking. |
| | Canadian Medical Association Journal, April 15, 1994, p. 1295 |
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