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    Smoke shops running low on Phillip Morris cigs

    Tulsa, Oklahoma (AP)
    The nation’s largest tobacco company is limiting the amount of premium-brand cigarettes it sells to some tribal smoke shops, a move that may force the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to enter a tobacco compact with the state.

    A contract policy by Philip Morris USA is reducing the amount of cigarettes it sells to retailers who in turn sell those cigarettes to other retailers.

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