(Buffalo News, The (NY) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 30–Federal attorneys have filed suit against a tobacco wholesale company owned by Arthur “Sugar” Montour, a former Seneca tribal councillor, for failing to pay $18.4 million in federal tobacco settlement assessments.
Montour’s company, Native Wholesale Supply Co., located on the Cattaraugus Reservation, is the exclusive American distributor [...]

Global cigarette consumption has been rising steadily since James Bonsack invented the first cigarette-rolling machine in 1881. But the 1960s, the incontrovertible health consequences of smoking had become apparent and, in some countries, consumption began leveling off and even decreasing. Worldwide, however, more people are smoking cigarette, and each smoker is consuming a greater number [...]