black market cigarettes meaning Excessively high' cigarette taxes 'fuelling' market, as retailers fear expansion of tobacco wars Smokers turn to black market

This heavy taxation is supposed to be a harm reduction measure by discouraging use

The price of tobacco also rose by 6.8 per cent on September 1, which includes a 5 per cent increase to the excise on top of the regular indexation

But since then, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute warned that some broader forms of organised crime - including scammers and rogue traders - could effectively become decriminalised, due to a lack of funding

And is it the best use of NSW Police time to be devoted to tobacco sales, when in the end the federal governments not getting the excise that they thought theyre not getting that tax that they would get from that massive increase. At a June 3 press conference he elaborated: This is another element of federal policy we believe needs to change

Thats the subject of one of three New Republic pieces I posted this week

[6] In London alone, 85% of smuggled cigarettes were found to be counterfeit, while the UK Border Agency averages more than 1 million counterfeit cigarette seizures per day