Showing posts with label smoke shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoke shop. Show all posts

Dec 8, 2011

Group Warns Against Smoke Shop

The Dakota-run Chundee smoke shop is an illegal smoke shack that opens the back door for organized crime to expand into western Canada, top executives for Canada's biggest lobby group for convenience stores warned Monday.

Alex Scholten, president of the Canadian Convenience Store Association and vice president Michel Gadbois flew to Winnipeg to release evidence of an illegal sale they obtained with a sting operation they claim they organized at the site two days ago.

The evidence is a videotape that shows a teen under 18 being sold cheap Winston cigarettes without being asked to present ID or proof of Indian status.