Posted AT 4:49 AM EDT on 02/11/07
Youth puffing black-market smokes
OTTAWA — Three out of every 10 cigarettes inhaled by young smokers are from the unregulated black market, according to a survey of butts lying on the ground outside Quebec and Ontario high schools.
Conducted on behalf of the Canadian Convenience Stores Association, the results found 24 per cent of cigarette butts at Ontario high schools - and 35 per cent in Quebec - were contraband.
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