PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Russell C. Callaghan AU - Scott Veldhuizen AU - Scott Leatherdale AU - Donna Murnaghan AU - Steve Manske TI - Use of contraband cigarettes among adolescent daily smokers in Canada AID - 10.1503/cmaj.090665 DP - 2009 Sep 15 TA - Canadian Medical Association Journal PG - 384--386 VI - 181 IP - 6-7 4099 - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/181/6-7/384.short 4100 - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/181/6-7/384.full SO - CMAJ2009 Sep 15; 181 AB - Current tobacco-control strategies seek to inhibit and reduce smoking among adolescents. However, such strategies are probably undermined by the contraband tobacco market. Using data from Canada’s 2006/2007 Youth Smoking Survey, we found that 13.1% of respondents who were daily smokers reported that contraband cigarettes were their usual brand. They consumed significantly more cigarettes than respondents who smoked other brands. Contraband cigarettes accounted for about 17.5% of all cigarettes smoked by adolescent daily smokers in Canada overall, and for more than 25% in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.