Mr. Montour, I like your idea of trying to track the inputs, but I'm going to be the devil's advocate for the moment.
Colleagues were asking where these illicit manufacturers get their tobacco from. Well, they get it through black market transactions. I thought I heard someone say that you can only buy tobacco in Canada, leaf tobacco, if you are a registered manufacturer. So if they're not registered manufacturers, they're buying the tobacco on the black market. You can refute that if I'm wrong.
If you control the inputs, as you're suggesting--I think it's an idea very worthy of consideration--will that market go underground as well? That would include the papers, the filters. If someone's tracking that and saying, “Whoops, you're selling to someone who's illegally manufacturing cigarettes”, could that just go underground as well?