Routine stop uncovers 470 thousand contraband cigarettes and $1000 in cash
A man is facing federal and provincial charges after being caught with contraband cigarettes on Friday. A 1997 GMC 2500 truck from Quebec was initially pulled over by RCMP officers because it was missing a front license plate and had dark tinted windows.
RCMP say officers noticed the contraband cigarettes while speaking to the driver.
The car [...]
“Death Panels” and Big Cig
This week’s issue of Rolling Stone has an illuminating article, “The Lie Machine,” by Tim Dickinson on anti-heath reform spin. Dickinson’s article quotes internal corporate memos showing how Big Tobacco spun media stories about health care reform in 1994 and how its progeny are striking again.
Among other things, the RS article excerpts a memo by [...]
