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The legislation, which aims to make it easier to prosecute those involved in the illicit tobacco trade, is more of the same: punitive, but still not effective.
The illicit market for tobacco is not an inevitable result of high excise taxes.
Right now, based on market share, organised crime effectively is Big Tobacco in Australia.
Smoking isn’t back. New data show Australia’s tobacco control laws are working.
As a dried plant product, illegal tobacco is a biosecurity risk in its own right. With tonnes of it arriving undetected, these tiny pests may be hitchhiking in too.
The alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade has been arrested - does this mean the end of the so-called ‘tobacco wars’?
The illicit market has reached the point where it is significantly distorting the national accounts.
South Australian landlords who turn a blind eye on illegal tobacco can now be fined, while Queensland is proposing bigger fines and even a year in jail.
Retail outlets already or will soon need to have a licence to sell cigarettes. But there aren’t restrictions on the number of licensed outlets.
Tobacco companies claim denicotinisation and lower availability of tobacco could lead to illicit trade, but several studies show problems with the way the industry uses data to support such claims.
How industry-funded data on tobacco smuggling exaggerates the scale of the problem.
All you need to know about illegal cigarettes and tobacco.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Principal Social Scientist - Law Research, The University of Queensland
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UQ Amplify Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Public Health, University of Otago
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Postdoctoral fellow, Drug Policy Modelling Program, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Thoracic Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Genomics and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Bond University; Murdoch University
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Professor of Biosecurity and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Global Engagement, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Biosecurity and One Health, Murdoch University
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PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland