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Tobacco lobby calls for Ontario enforcement 

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The tobacco industry is lobbying Ontario Premier Doug Ford to step up enforcement of tobacco taxation, noting that the province estimates that $750 million a year is being lost.

Gary Grant, spokesman for the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco, said Ford’s recent announcement of a war on guns and gangs needs to include action to stop contraband tobacco that is being used to fund the gangs.

He said the trade in illicit cigarettes amounts to $1 million a day, yet the government has still not acted on an initiative it announced in the 2018 fall economic statement.

He said Ontario continues to be the worst province for illicit tobacco.

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