From: NewsMedical.net

University of Alberta economics professor calling on government to tighten enforcement on contraband tobacco after research shows link to illicit drugs

A University of Alberta economics professor has discovered a link between contraband cigarette use and illicit drug use among Canadian teens.

Professor Mesbah Sharaf, a health economics lecturer at the University of Alberta in Canada, recently published a joint study with the University of Waterloo titled “Association Between Contraband Tobacco and Illicit Drug Use Among High School Students in Canada” in The Journal of Primary Prevention.