From: Montreal Gazette via dotnewz.com
Christopher Curtis
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“By banning menthol cigarettes in the province but doing nothing to stop their sale on reserves, the government is just gifting the contraband tobacco industry five per cent of the market share,” said Carlos A. Godoy, a spokesperson for the NCAC. “Menthols, they’re available in Kahnawake. So the contraband industry has the capabilities of producing menthols, they’re just going to increase production. Who wouldn’t? They’re smart business people. … It nullifies what Bill 44 is trying to do.”
Flavoured cigars and cigarettes are available — at heavily discounted prices — in the dozens of smoke shops that line Kahnawake’s Highway 132. Tens of thousands of commuters navigate that stretch of road every day on their way across the Mercier Bridge and many of them buy their tobacco products from Mohawk vendors.
