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'Selfish race': former cop skeptical on tobacco tax cut

A retired police veteran has suggested most smokers will still reach for a pack of illegal cigarettes if legal alternatives are made cheaper.

AAP · Sep 7

Illegal ciggies tipped to soon stub out retail sales

One of Australia's biggest retailers has warned nine in 10 cigarettes will be bought illegally by the end of the decade unless the tobacco excise is cut.

AAP · Feb 17

Tobacco tax cut 'no fix' to $4b smugglers' paradise

Public health experts are urging authorities not to get the jitters on tobacco taxes as the economic cost of Australia's black market trade explodes.

AAP · Nov 6, 2025

Big Tobacco’s ‘horror show’: Vaping ban to hit insidious industry

Health Minister Mark Butler vowed to close what he said was the biggest loophole in the history of Australian healthcare with the vaping ban.

The New Daily · May 2, 2023

Tobacco-linked organisations and executives fail to declare interests to TGA vaping inquiry

Known links to tobacco multinationals and vaping lobby groups omitted in submissions to federal government consultation on reform

The Guardian - AU · Mar 24, 2023