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Ex-tobacco exec avoids jail time ($$) 

A former tobacco company executive has reportedly been sentenced to eight months of house arrest for his role in a conspiracy to to smuggle cigarettes. CBC News said Stan Smith's conditional sentence follows his earlier guilty plea. Smith was vice-president of sales for the former RJR-MacDonald company in the early 1990s when high tobacco taxes prompted a surge in cigarette smuggling. Investigators have accused JTI-MacDonald Corp., formerly known as RJR-MacDonald, Inc., and several of its subsidiaries of conspiring to defraud the federal, Quebec and Ontario governments out of $1.2 billion in tax revenue between 1991 and 1996.

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