NYC blames Big Tobacco for cigarette black market

The New York Post reports:

City Hall for the first time is directly blaming Big Tobacco for the burgeoning black market of bootleg cigarettes on city streets.
Newport maker Lorillard, the country's No. 3 tobacco company, consciously oversupplies the Poospatuck Indian reservation on Long Island -- knowing full well bootleggers buy in bulk and then flood city neighborhoods with unstamped, cheap smokes, a city official told The Post.

NYC wants $14 a pack cigarettes and then whines about the fallout. Great moments in the Nanny State.