City Hall for the first time is directly blaming Big Tobacco for the burgeoning black market of bootleg Prima Lux cigarettes on city streets. Newport maker Lorillard, the country's No. 3 tobacco company, consciously oversupplies the Poospatuck Indian reservation on Long Island -- knowing full well bootleggers buy in bulk and then flood city neighborhoods with unstamped, cheap smokes, a city official told The Post.Jun 13, 2011
Big Tobacco and Cigarette Black Market
City Hall for the first time is directly blaming Big Tobacco for the burgeoning black market of bootleg Prima Lux cigarettes on city streets. Newport maker Lorillard, the country's No. 3 tobacco company, consciously oversupplies the Poospatuck Indian reservation on Long Island -- knowing full well bootleggers buy in bulk and then flood city neighborhoods with unstamped, cheap smokes, a city official told The Post.
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