Exactly. In fact, it's conservatively estimated at between 20% and 30% of the market. In some areas it's as high as 80% percent. It's a very serious issue. It's not just that these are dirty cigarettes or that they're cheap cigarettes. The money, as mentioned earlier, is actually tied to international organized crime and it's often used to launder money. It's easier to drive a big truck full of cartons of cigarettes across the Canada-U.S. border than it is to transport hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars of cash. This is big business and it's big money.
On February 12th, 2018. See this statement in context.