But there are some unfortunate similarities when it comes to Australia’s tobacco tax policy, which has inadvertently encouraged black markets, criminality and organised crime. Yet for the ...

SYDNEY - Sky-high tobacco prices in Australia have created a lucrative black market, analysts say, sparking a violent “tobacco war” and syphoning away billions in potential tax revenue.

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Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Tobacco excise collections have collapsed to their lowest level in 14 years as smokers turn to the black market for cheaper ...

"There are at least 2,000 stores in Victoria, probably the same in New South Wales that are selling chop-chop [loose tobacco sold on the black market]." Cash-only stores, unmarked white vans ...

Melbourne’s “tobacco war” could be coming to an uneasy ... co-operate in an attempt to monopolise the multibillion-dollar black market. Kazem Hamad seems out of reach to Australian ...

Taxing or banning addictive products will always create black markets. And that is what has happened with smoking. Taxes on tobacco were so high that they were raising much more than just the cost ...

While Australia’s economy stutters along and households fret over the cost of living, business is booming for one industry: illegal tobacco dealers ... $12 to $20. The black market is largely ...

Step into Captain Scurvy’s Black Dragon Pub and enter a realm of renaissance, where shanties are sung, tankards flow to-and-fro, smoked pig is fresh from the pit, and there are Friar Franklin's ...

"He's the Black Captain American. He's probably the most powerful African-American alive besides Barack Obama." The United States certainly loves its sports stars, and there aren't many stars who ...