An Ontario man is facing charges in Manitoba after he was found to be transporting contraband cigarettes. The man was arrested Monday afternoon when he was stopped by a police officer for an equipment violation on his van, RCMP said. The officer was patrolling the Trans-Canada Highway near Angle Road in Portage la Prairie at around 1:30 p.m. when he noticed the van was missing the rear bumper and a tie down strap was hanging out the back. When h ... Jump to full article >>

Portage la Prairie RCMP seized some contraband cigarettes on Monday. At about 1:30 a.m., a Portage RCMP member was patrolling the Trans-Canada Highway near Angle Road in Portage when a 1996 Ford Windstar van from British Columbia was observed traveling westbound. RCMP noted the vehicle was missing the rear bumper and a tie-down strap was hanging out the back of the van. The vehicle was stopped for the equipment violation when police were able to ... Jump to full article >>

Teenagers in the nation’s capital continue to smoke a significant number of contraband cigarettes, a new study suggests. The study, commissioned by the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco, found that 23 per cent of cigarette butts collected from around 11 high schools in Ottawa were illegal cigarettes. “Kids, who shouldn’t be smoking at all, are having no trouble getting their hands on illegal cigarettes that cost pen ... Jump to full article >>

GEORGE TOWN: One out of every three cigarette packs sold in peninsular Malaysia is either contraband or fake. In Sabah and Sarawak, two out of three packs sold are illegal. These numbers were based on a quarterly survey and study conducted by the Customs De­­partment and the Confederation of Malaysian Tobacco Manuf­acturers (CMTM). Customs deputy director-general (enforcement) Datuk Mohamed Khalid Yusuf, in revealing the results, added that t ... Jump to full article >>

INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline)- Thanks to a consent agreement from a lawsuit headed by Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, more than 11 million cigarettes have been destroyed or shipped out of state. The case derived from an Indiana Department of Revenue audit and inspection of a warehouse owned by G.T. Northeast Inc. of Sellersburg, Ind., in Sept. 2007, where 55,039 cartons (555,390 packs or 11,007,800 cigarettes) of six brands prohibited fo ... Jump to full article >>