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It estimates that contraband cigarette sales garnered nearly $430 million in gross sales revenue in Alberta from 2021 to 2023 costing the province more than $262 million in tobacco tax revenue over the same period (not including sales tax revenue)

"They are going to do it again and again and again." Statistics compiled by the city show that Philadelphia has 4,398 tobacco retailers, or 27 for every 1,000 children ages 10 to 17 - double the ratio in Chicago, San Diego, and New York

"You know you are in the middle of a moral panic when big corporations like Walmart find it is easier to sell deadly combustible tobacco products than to sell harm reduction alternatives," the industry-funded group's president, Gregory Conley, said in a statement.

But in 1954, Philip Morris decided to reposition the Marlboro brand in a few key ways