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University of Oklahoma developing tobacco use policy for Norman campus
University of Oklahoma President David Boren wants to make it difficult, but not impossible, to light up on campus. Boren, who is pushing for a policy that would restrict tobacco use at the university's Norman campus, said Wednesday he doesn't expect the university will ban all tobacco use.  Tobacco & Cigarettes5/19/2012
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OP/ED: Taxing questions about Indian cigarette sales
(New York) -- The state years ago came up with the idea to tax cigarettes sold on Indian reservations. For a long time that idea was stymied by a very simple and...
5/14/2012
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Pregnant women still smoke
(Wisconsin) -- The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for Urban Initiatives and Research released its report, “Smoking during Pregnancy in Wisconsin and the...
4/1/2012
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Roll-your-own smokes tax has retailers fuming
(Washington) -- Tobacco shops say they would take a serious hit if state lawmakers, struggling to cover a $1 billion budget gap, change how the state taxes roll-your-own...
3/29/2012
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Inmates fight against tobacco ban
(South Dakota) -- A traditional healer is arguing that tobacco is an integral part of Native American religious ceremonies and denying its use is akin to taking away the...
3/26/2012
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Native American inmates challenging tobacco ban
(South Dakota) -- Opening arguments are scheduled Tuesday in a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Native American inmates saying a state prison policy that bans the use...
3/23/2012
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Manitoba takes fight with native smoke shop to Facebook
(Manitoba) -- The Manitoba government is trying to crack down on an illegal First Nations smoke shop, in part by preventing people from using Facebook or other websites...
3/14/2012
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Smoking Study and Native Americans
(North Carolina) -- A report from the US Surgeon General confirms a big problem among Cherokee teenagers. The latest report shows American Indian adolescents ages 12-17...
3/9/2012
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State Versus Tribe Tobacco Issues Resurface
(Oklahoma) -- Repeated efforts by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to conduct tobacco sales without state intervention appear to have floundered in a federal appeals court...
3/6/2012
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First Nation smoke shop raided a 4th time
(Manitoba) -- A native-run discount smoke shop in western Manitoba was raided by provincial authorities on Tuesday afternoon, who seized cigarettes from the illegal...
2/29/2012
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Federal appeals court upholds Creek Nation tobacco sales ban in Oklahoma
(Oklahoma) -- The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed the state of Oklahoma's ...
2/27/2012
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Charges dismissed against ex-Creek Nation worker
(Oklahoma) -- A federal judge has dismissed charges against a former Creek Nation employee accused of bilking the government out of more than $2.5 million in cigarette...
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Charges dismissed against ex-Okla. tribe worker
(Oklahoma) -- A former Muscogee Creek Nation official accused of bilking the government out of more than $2.5 million in cigarette taxes pleaded guilty Monday to federal...
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Former Bixby Man Pleads Guilty In Creek Nation Cigarette Tax Investigation
(Oklahoma) -- A former Bixby resident and former Creek Nation employee, Michael Wisner II, 40, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy in federal court in Muskogee...
1/31/2012
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Manitoba Dakota Chundee Smokes Raids Latest in Growing Tobacco War
(Manitoba) -- Manitoba authorities are stepping up efforts to halt sales of cigarettes that are federally labeled but not marked for purchase in the province.
1/24/2012
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Hearing delayed for two former Creek Nation workers
(Oklahoma) -- A magistrate judge has rescheduled the plea hearing for two former Creek Nation employees accused of bilking the government out of more than $2.5 million...
12/14/2011
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Police: Rochester man caught with 15,000 illegal cigarettes in Pembroke
(New York) -- A Rochester man is accused of possessing over 15,000 untaxed cigarettes, and trying to transport them across Indian reservation lines. Genesee County...
12/8/2011
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Court Rules State Has Jurisdiction in Tribal Cigarettes Case
(Washington) -- A ruling today from the state Supreme Court says Washington does has criminal jurisdiction over tribal members who sell cigarettes without a required tax...
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Court: State has jurisdiction over tribal cigarette sales outside Puyallup land
(Washington) -- The Washington Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the state has criminal jurisdiction over tribal members who sell cigarettes without a required...
12/7/2011
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Judge Blocks Tax Scheme in New Cigarette Law
(Washington D.C.) -- A provision of the new cigarette-trafficking law unfairly subjects remote sellers of tobacco products to unfair local and state taxes, a federal...
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Seneca cigarette dealer files for bankruptcy
(New York) -- One of the biggest movers of Native American-made cigarettes has filed for federal bankruptcy protection, a month after a court said the wholesaler is...
12/5/2011
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Judge Blocks Enforcement Of Tax Provision In Cigarette Trafficking Law
(Washington) -- A federal judge in Washington on Monday blocked enforcement of a provision in a new cigarette trafficking law that required remote sellers of tobacco...
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ABOUREZK: Smoking cessation program tailored to Natives
(Nebraska) -- Dale Leach II started smoking 21 years ago, when he was 15. He quit twice -- once for a year in 1989 and then for two years in 2005. But being around...
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Aboriginal ‘smoke shacks’ to mushroom
(Winnipeg) -- Convenience store owners say aboriginal “smoke shacks” are set to mushroom across the Prairies and governments have a duty to shut them down.
12/1/2011
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University of Oklahoma developing tobacco use policy for Norman campus
(Oklahoma) -- University of Oklahoma President David Boren wants to make it difficult, but not impossible, to light up on campus. Boren, who is pushing for a policy that...
11/30/2011
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Native smoke shop vows to continue
(Manitoba) -- Owners of the native-run discount smoke shop near Virden say they will continue to sell cigarettes despite another raid on the premises by the provincial...
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Province seizes smoke shop's product for a second time
(Manitoba) -- The province has again raided the Dakota Chundee Smoke Shop and Gaming Centre. Shortly after 12:30 p.m. Monday, provincial authorities and supporting RCMP...
11/22/2011
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NY Court: Cigarette Tax Law Harms Indian Economy, but Regulation is Lawful
(New York) -- In a case brought by the Seneca Nation of Indians, a New York appellate court has ruled that the negative economic impact to Indian reservations from the...
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Lawyer vows to appeal tribal cigarette tax case
(Washington) -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation’s right to tax non-members who buy...
11/17/2011
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State Law Challenges Tribal Autonomy
(Oklahoma) -- Native American Heritage Month will see a key test of sovereignty in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals when the Muscogee Creek Nation argues against...
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Manitoba First Nations use cheap smokes as weapon in land dispute
(Manitoba) -- A trio of Manitoba First Nations are hoping to settle a century-old land dispute by pressuring Ottawa without blockades or other messy confrontations with...
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Manitoba moves in on illegal First Nation smoke shop
(Manitoba) -- The Manitoba government has moved in on a First Nations smoke shop that has been defying provincial laws on tobacco sales. The Finance Department says...
11/15/2011
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Cigarettes seized from First Nation smoke shop
(Manitoba) -- Manitoba government officials have confiscated more than 89,000 cigarettes from a First Nation-run shop that was intentionally selling the smokes without a...
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Manitoba Indians Sell Contraband Cigarettes Openly
(Manitoba) -- Contraband cigarettes are usually sold under the counter, but the Manitoba Indians are not hiding the fact that a newly opened smoke shop stock illegal...
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Manitoba raids Dakota smoke shop, seizes Mohawk cigs
(Manitoba) -- It didn’t take long for Manitoba tax authorities to strike. Agents with Manitoba Finance’s special investigations unit along with the RCMP...
11/12/2011
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BLOG: Is New York Planning a Crackdown On Indian-Made Cigarettes? (Updated)
(New York) -- The Cuomo administration has so far refused to seek to collect taxes on cigarettes made and sold on Indian reservations in New York, instead taxing the...
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Editorial / Dakota complicate the issues
(Manitoba) -- The battle over a First Nations smoke shop that opened this week centres on unresolved recognition of the rights of Dakota Indians who migrated to Fort...
11/9/2011
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Loleta smoke shop on tribal land sued for 'contraband cigarettes'
(California) -- A tribal tobacco shop in Loleta has been ordered by the California Attorney General's Office to stop selling what it describes as illegal cigarettes...
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First Nation offers illegal smokes, gaming
(Manitoba) -- A small Manitoba First Nation is baiting the Canadian and Manitoba government by setting up an illegal smoke shop and gambling lounge.
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Fate of cigarette seller up to court
(New York) -- A federal prosecutor and a defense attorney argued Wednesday before a federal appeals court about whether a man who had been accused of monopolizing a...
11/7/2011
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Loleta smoke shop sued by state for 'contraband cigarettes'
(California) -- A tribal tobacco shop in Loleta has been ordered by the California Attorney General's Office to stop selling what it describes as illegal cigarettes...
11/6/2011
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‘Taxed out’ New York smokers roll their own
(New York) -- At Island Smokes on New York City's Lower East Side, customers sick of the highest tax on cigarettes in America are fighting back by rolling their own...
11/5/2011
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Manitoba band ready to open smoke shop, VLT lounge
(Manitoba) -- A Dakota First Nation VLT lounge and smoke shop will open Wednesday in southwestern Manitoba, Canupawakpa Chief Frank Brown has confirmed — with or...
10/21/2011
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TESTIMONY: Center Scholar Testifies on Cigarette Taxes
(North Dakota) -- We thank you for the invitation to submit this testimony regarding tax-induced cigarette smuggling. I have studied the cross-border economic phenomena...
9/29/2011
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Native Sun News: Indian inmates sue over ban on tobacco use
(South Dakota) -- Native American inmates at the South Dakota Department of Corrections (DOC) will litigate the ban on the use of tobacco in traditional ceremonies at...
9/2/2011
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Bloods Attempted Takeover of a Long Island Indian Reservation Smoke Shop
(New York) -- It was Sunday, shortly before daybreak, last Labor Day eve when three gunshots pierced the peaceful morning quiet on the Poospatuck Indian Reservation in...
8/9/2011
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Fourth District Court of Appeal Upholds Injunction Barring Tobacco Sales on Tribal Land to Non-Indians
(California) -- The Fourth District Court of Appeal has upheld an injunction barring the sale of tobacco by stores operating on lands held in trust in eastern Riverside...
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Only tribe members can buy untaxed cigarettes
(California) -- Black Hawk can still sell its untaxed, non-fire-safe cigarettes to members of any federally recognized California tribe, but that's it, according to...
7/29/2011
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States Balk on Accord With Cigarette Makers
(New York) -- A proposed deal between big cigarette makers and U.S. states to resolve a $7.1 billion payments dispute has been rejected by many state attorneys general,...
7/22/2011
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Native American Fair Commerce Coalition Joins Movement to Stop Proposed Amendment of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
(Washington D.C.) -- The Native American Fair Commerce Coalition (NAFCC), a representative organization comprised of like-minded tribes and tribal members that are...
7/20/2011
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An uphill battle to curb a culture of tobacco use
(Minnesota) -- Minnesota's American Indians have higher than average cancer death rates, mostly caused by tobacco. But completely taking tobacco out of the Indian...
7/18/2011
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Native American tribe sues over raid
(Mississippi) -- A Washington state Native American tribe is suing several Mississippi municipalities over allegations that their law enforcement officials illegally...
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Tribes sue Tupelo, others over FBI raid
(Mississippi) -- A Washington state Indian tribe has sued the city of Tupelo and Marshall County, among others, claiming their law enforcement officials illegally...
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Dakota Nation to regulate own sale of tobacco
(Manitoba) -- The Canupawakpa Dakota Nation plans to regulate its own aboriginal tobacco sales, after band Chief Frank Brown says the province was unable to press...
7/14/2011
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NM official's store targeted by attorney general
(New Mexico) -- Attorney General Gary King’s office said Wednesday it plans to take enforcement action over what it views as the illegal sale of some cigarettes at...
7/13/2011
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Attorney general plans enforcement over cigarette sales at store owned by NM cabinet secretary
(New Mexico) -- Attorney General Gary King's office says it will take enforcement action over what it views as the illegal sale of some cigarettes at a store in...
7/12/2011
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Cabinet secretary's store questioned over selling banned cigarettes
(New Mexico) -- The attorney general's office says a store owned by one of Gov. Susana Martinez's cabinet secretaries on the Navajo Nation is selling cigarettes...
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Cigarette sales by cabinet secretary's store on tribal lands under scrutiny
(New Mexico) -- A store owned by one of Gov. Susana Martinez's cabinet secretaries on the Navajo Nation is selling cigarettes prohibited in New Mexico and untaxed by...
7/8/2011
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North Dakota-bought cigarettes illegal in Montana due to tax issue
(North Dakota) -- “Don’t take cigarettes out of the state,” reads a sign along Interstate 94 near the Montana-North Dakota border. The sign is in...
7/3/2011
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Claiming Tobacco Smuggling, RCMP Seizes Luxury Cars, Makes Arrests
(Alberta) -- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) sent 120 officers to raid locations in Châteauguay, Laval and Longueuil to break apart a “huge tobacco...
7/1/2011
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Tobacco — tradition vs. addition
(Canada) -- I work in an environment that treats tobacco with respect. You might say “why treat it with respect, when it kills 37,000 Canadians every year?”
6/22/2011
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Big tobacco pushing states to go after tribal tobacco retailers
(Washington D.C.) -- Philip Morris USA and other big tobacco companies are trying to reopen the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement and force states to go after tribal...
6/20/2011
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Big Tobacco launches $1.5-B lawsuit against First Nations smoke shops
(Ontario) -- Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. has decided to butt into the debate on contraband cigarettes, launching a $1.5-billion lawsuit against what it calls contraband...
5/29/2011
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Yakama Sues Feds for Violations of Treaty, Consultation, TLOA
(Washington) -- During a visit to Washington this week, the chairman of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and members of his delegation will go to...
5/27/2011
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Seneca Nation leader discusses tobacco tax at UN forum
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation has a treaty right to regulate trade and commerce free of state interference, a tribal leader told the United Nations Permanent Forum on...
5/23/2011
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Lawmakers pass measure to negotiate tobacco payments with tribes
(Nebraska) -- A legislative bill calling for the state to negotiate with Native tribes to make payments on cigarette sales so Nebraska can continue to receive millions...
5/12/2011
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Our view: Cuomo must stay firm on tobacco tax
(New York) -- Talk is cheap — especially when it comes to New York state’s ability to collect taxes on cigarette sales by Indian-owned businesses to non-...
5/9/2011
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2nd Circuit lifts injunction in New York tribal tobacco dispute
(New York) -- The state of New York won a key ruling today in its effort to impose a tobacco tax in Indian Country. Under a new law and new regulations, wholesalers who...
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Appeals court clears state to tax Native cigarette sales
(New York) -- A federal court appeals panel has cleared the state to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American merchants — a decision expected to devastate the...
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Court: NY can begin collecting cigarette sales taxes from reservations
(New York) -- Approximately $500,000 per day could be flowing into state coffers following a court ruling Monday in the ongoing battle over the state's ability to...
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Federal court throws out American Indian cigarette tax injunction
(New York) -- A federal court today threw out an injunction preventing the state from collecting cigarette taxes on American Indian reservations, the latest in a long...
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Federal court vacates Indian tax injunction
(New York) -- A federal appeals court has vacated the injunction that several Indian tribes had against collecting the state’s $4.35 excise tax on cigarettes sold...
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New York wins ruling in tribal cigarette tax clash
(New York) -- Two Native American tribes have lost a round in their court battle to block New York state from collecting cigarette taxes from reservation stores.
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NY Gets Court Win On Cigarette Tax Collection
(New York) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd District this morning said the tribes "have failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits of their claims."
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NYS Can Collect Tax On Indian Cigarette Sales
(New York) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued a unanimous decision upholding the authority of New York State to collect taxes on cigarette...
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Oneidas: Cigarette tax ruling won’t affect them
(New York) -- Following a federal court decision Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his administration will move quickly to begin collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by...
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State set to get tax on Indian cigarette sales
(New York) -- A ruling Monday by a federal appeals court prompted state officials to begin planning to collect taxes on cigarette sales from Indians to non-Indian...
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State vows to collect taxes on Indian reservation cigarette sales
(New York) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said the state will immediately start collecting cigarette taxes on cigarettes bound for sale at Indian reservations. A...
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Feds abandon appeal in Kansas tobacco tax case
(Kansas) -- The federal government is dropping its case against a Kansas tobacco wholesaler and several others accused of trying to avoid paying $25 million in cigarette...
4/28/2011
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Lawmakers advance measure to negotiate tobacco payments with tribes
(Nebraska) -- A legislative bill calling for the state to negotiate with Native American tribes to make payments on cigarette sales so Nebraska can continue to receive...
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Neb. Lawmakers Mull Collecting Tribal Tobacco Tax Revenue
(Nebraska) -- A bill that would create a way for Nebraska to collect tobacco tax revenue from Native American tribes advanced Wednesday through a first-round legislative...
4/11/2011
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PRESIDENT PORTER: Butt out, NY Post!
(New York) -- Your editorial on April 2 directs Gov. Cuomo to commence state cigarette-tax collections on Indian lands within the state ("Andrew & the Indians...
4/10/2011
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Budget Includes Cig Tax Revenue
(New York) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have included $130 million in revenue from tax collections on cigarettes sold to non-Indians on Native American territories in the...
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Kolb, Nozzolio and Finch offer their take and a Q&A on Cayuga Nation-related issues
(New York) -- Three local lawmakers recently offered the following take on issues related to the Cayuga Indian Nation:
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Lawmakers lay out position on tribe matters
(New York) -- State lawmakers representing Seneca and Cayuga counties have issued their take on controversial issues involving the Seneca Falls-based Cayuga Indian...
4/9/2011
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Seneca President Rebukes New York Post for Editorial
(New York) -- It didn’t take long for Seneca Nation of Indians President Rob Odawi Porter to respond to a New York Post editorial urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to collect...
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Sacred Tobacco: Ho-Chunk Nation Wants Military Authorities to Stop Confiscating it
(Wisconsin) -- What is it that makes tobacco such a sacred object in the spiritual world of American Indians? “It’s not an item that we smoke at our leisure...
4/7/2011
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Bill to collect tribal tobacco payments forwarded
(Nebraska) -- A bill that would create a process for the state of Nebraska to collect revenue from tribes for tobacco sales was forwarded out of the Revenue Committee...
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Martinez vetoes cigarette tax bill
(New Mexico) -- Gov. Susana Martinez on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have taxed cigarette manufacturers that in certain cases receive exemptions.
4/2/2011
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OP/ED: Andrew & the Indians
(New York) -- During the just-concluded state budget battle, Team Cuomo was stunned by what one official called Albany's "tribal politics." That was...
3/22/2011
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Nonini on tribal cigtax bill: ‘I guess no news is good news’
(Idaho) -- The Idaho Indian Affairs Council met at the state Capitol yesterday, and when asked what was up with tribal law enforcement legislation, Helo Hancock of the...
3/15/2011
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State Apologizes to Ponca Tribe
(Nebraska) -- The state of Nebraska has apologized to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska for seizing its cigarettes. According to the tribe, on Thursday, March 10, the Nebraska...
3/14/2011
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State to return tribe's cigarettes
(Nebraska) -- The Nebraska Department of Revenue will return nearly $14,000 worth of cigarettes seized last week from the Ponca Tribe, a tribal official said Monday....
3/11/2011
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Tribe sues feds over reservation raid
(Washington) -- The Yakama Nation is suing the federal government for violation of its treaty rights over an FBI raid last month of a tribal cigarette manufacturer on...
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NE tribe says state seized tribal cigarettes
(Nebraska) -- The chairwoman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska says state officials seized about $14,000 worth of tribal cigarettes from a smoke shop in Niobrara (nigh-oh-...
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Seminole tribal visit signals new smokes
(Florida) -- A direct descendant of Chief Osceola, Joe Dan Osceola of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, is familiar with “firsts.” He was the first Seminole to...
3/10/2011
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Tribe: State officials seized cigarettes in Niobrara
(Nebraska) -- Nebraska state officials apparently seized $13,000 to $14,000 worth of cigarettes from a Ponca tribal smoke shop in Niobrara on Thursday morning, according...
2/24/2011
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Idaho considers taxing reservation cigarette sales
(Idaho) -- Relationships among Idaho's five recognized Indian tribes and descendants of white settlers who settled the state are once again the focus at the 2011...
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Tribes Irked Over Proposed Tobacco Tax
(Idaho) -- The state Legislature is considering raising its tax on cigarettes by $1.25 per pack, but some lawmakers are trying to extend the tax to reservations as well...
2/20/2011
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Bid to tax Native American cigarettes stalls
(New York) -- Last summer, smokers who bought their cigarettes on Native American reservations were stocking up, anticipating the state's promised clampdown on untaxed...
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