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Use your kids to import duty-free cigars. And cigarettes

Faithful SooToday.com reader Zing spotted a real zinger of a news story today, written by Bill Tieleman of the Calgary Sun. It appears that Canada Border Services Agency is now allowing children to import tobacco into Canada.
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Faithful SooToday.com reader Zing spotted a real zinger of a news story today, written by Bill Tieleman of the Calgary Sun.

It appears that Canada Border Services Agency is now allowing children to import tobacco into Canada.

Each of your kids is allowed a duty-free exemption on 200 cigarettes, 50 cigars and 200 grams of manufactured tobacco.

If they've been across the border for more than 48 hours.

To read Tieleman's report, please click here.


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