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Mastic tribe worries over cigarette tax crackdown

On a brisk autumn day in Mastic, a tree-lined lane abruptly gives way to a jarring collage of signs for Newport and Seneca and King Mountain cigarettes at the Poospatuck Indian Reservation, where a tribe once locked in poverty fights its way out on narrow roads paved by cigarette sales.

Harry Wallace, chief of the Unkechaug tribe, typically maintains a hard, Steven Seagal demeanor, but he...

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