From: The Toronto Sun
By Mark Bonokoski, Postmedia Network
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We’re now in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, 7,250-hectares of First Nations reserve on Lake Ontario’s Bay of Quinte, where sales of illegal cigarettes, and their link to organized crime, are as common as birds on a wire.
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Two years earlier, the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco claimed the 30% of cigarette butts found outside 110 Ontario schools were smokes that had originated on reserves, meaning our kids were getting hooked on the cheap stuff because it was, well, cheaper.