On the recordOctober 24, 2000
I just want to let my colleagues know that, just a couple of months ago, Bob Butterworth, the Attorney General for the State of Florida, and by the way was one of the first attorneys general to successfully sue the tobacco companies, came to me with this problem: gray marketers have been flooding the State of Florida and other States with cigarettes that skirt the tobacco master settlement agreement. Loopholes in the Federal law allow gray market cigarettes to enter the country without paying the higher taxes imposed by the master settlement agreement. General Butterworth estimates that the State of Florida alone, just in the State of Florida, will lose $100 million.
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