[dhughes]

It seems the majority of cigarette smuggling goes on at the Quebec/NY border. The two big players involved are the Rock Machine/Hells Angels (Bandidos and Bacchus) and Mohawk Natives who reside in the border region.

There is also quite a bit in eastern Quebec and New Brunswick , it's into the remainder of Maritimes the border really where a lot of this occurs.

CBC.ca has news of it from time to time mostly when violence erupts, a lot of it occurred in the 90s when the Rock Machine and Hells Angels were separate club but I think they merged, violently.

Of the regions involved all are areas of high rates of smoking. Even here where I live where the federal tax centre building is the local news found illegal unmarked cigarettes outside the smoking area! Imagine if in the US the IRS workers on their smoke break smoked illegal cigarettes and just put them out on the ground, ballsy!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Mohawks+gangs+tobacco/14...

(PDF) http://www.cisc.gc.ca/annual_reports/documents/2001_annual_r...