Editor’s Note: Contraband tobacco vendors sell to children. A letter from the FDA to the Big Indian Smoke Shop citing it for selling tobacco to minors is available here.
From: Jalopnik
Erik Shilling
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The person doing the construction work was identified as Eric White, a Seneca and the owner of Big Indian Smoke Shop in Irving, New York. White and other Senecas have been doing battle with New York state for years over cigarette taxes, which the state has said the Senecas have illegally avoided paying, while tribe members say that, as a sovereign nation, they have no obligation to pay.
