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• Investigation: Creek smoke shops skirting state rules 

Four years after the state of Oklahoma entered into a new tobacco compact with the tribes, the state is continuing its efforts to stop the methods used by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to sell low-tax and cheap cigarettes in the Tulsa area.

The Oklahoma Tax Commission has launched an investigation into whether the Osage Nation is using a loophole in a new tobacco rule to supply low-tax cigarettes to Creek-affiliated smoke shops, a Tulsa World investigation shows.

Low-tax cigarettes are meant to be sold along the Oklahoma border by smoke shops in competition with lower tax rates in adjoining states.

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