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Smoke ’em if you can get ’em (and you can)

"I never thought it would be so easy" says one underage teen
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Le Journal de Montréal sends two youngish-looking teens to two Montreal-area Indian reserves to buy cigarettes from several ’smoke houses.’ In all but one case, these establishments sold contraband cigarettes, which dot both the Kahnawake and Kanasatake reserves, to the two teens, the oldest of which was 17. "I never thought it would be so easy" to get smokes, said one of the teens hired by Le Journal.

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