More than 70 stores selling tobacco have been firebombed in the past 18 months, as rival gangs vie for control of what has become a very lucrative market
He says he refuses to buy illegal cigarettes and spends $250 on tobacco a week
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Black market punches multi-billion-dollar hole in federal budget Some estimates suggest as many as one in three, or one in four, tobacco products consumed in Australia are now purchased through the black market, and it is blowing a multi-billion-dollar hole in the federal budget
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If legal nicotine alternatives, like vaping and heated tobacco, are accessible, affordable and well-regulated, then the incentive to go illicit collapses