A year after ban, smoke-easies popping up all over Ontario.

. . .adult smokers are taking their business to the black market, denying revenue to Ontario's independent, family-run convenience stores and robbing the Ontario government of millions of dollars of much needed tax dollars.

With tobacco accounting for between 45 per cent and 65 per cent of a typical convenience store's total revenues, it becomes clear that the proliferation of the illegal tobacco market unabated will eventually destroy the family-run convenience store industry in Ontario.