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The average wholesale price of cigarettes in Canadian provinces has increased by 75% to 123% over the past five years After more than a decade of stable pricing, tobacco companies began to sharply increase their wholesale prices over the past 5 years, from a national average of $0.095 per cigarette in 2014 to $0.176 in 2019, providing them an additional 85% per cigarette sold

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(b) Every person under the age of 18 years who purchases, receives, or possesses any tobacco, cigarette, or cigarette papers, or any other preparation of tobacco, or any other instrument or paraphernalia that is designed for the smoking of tobacco, products prepared from tobacco, or any controlled substance shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of seventy-five dollars ($75) or 30 hours of community service work