Tobacco tax: Medical bodies warn against cutting excise
Proposals to lower the tobacco tax risk allowing “organised crime and big tobacco” to “rewrite Australia’s health policy”,…
Gold Coast garbo dumps smouldering load to save truck from fire
Talk about a rubbish start to the day. A quick-thinking Queensland garbo was forced to “drop it like…
Border Force agents seize more than 1.7 million cigarettes, thousands of vapes in joint WA, NT raids
The Australian Border Force (ABF) has seized more than a million illegal cigarettes and vapes in a series…
NT teenagers say vapes are still commonplace and easily accessible despite crackdown
They are illegal and highly addictive, but according to a group of Northern Territory high school students, vapes…
With almost 50 shops forced shut, can Perth’s vape crackdown dent a huge black market?
Almost 50 shops across suburban Perth have been taped up and plastered with large closed-for-business signs after being…
ABS estimates 80pc of tobacco consumed in Australia last year illegal amid ‘rapid growth’ in black market
An estimated 80 per cent of the cigarettes and other nicotine products consumed in Australia last year were…
Six stores ordered to shut as WA’s illegal tobacco laws come into force
More than 140,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized and six stores ordered to close down, days after Western…
Illicit cigarettes, vapes, cash seized in raids on Canberra’s black market tobacco trade
More than 455,000 illicit cigarettes have been seized as part of a series of raids on Canberra retailers,…
Employees of Albany lolly shop fined for illegal tobacco sales say they were never paid
Employees of an illegal tobacco outlet masquerading as a lolly shop in Albany say they do not know…
Illicit vaping, cigarette raids create game of ‘whack-a-mole’ but health campaign urges patience
High tobacco taxes and demand for nicotine have pushed Australians into a flourishing black market that has outgrown…
Vape shopfronts move online amid Qld crackdown on illegal products
Less than a fortnight after tobacconists suspected of selling illegal vapes were raided and shut down across Queensland,…
Lotterywest cancels licences of seven stores across Perth found to be selling illegal tobacco or vapes
Seven stores across Perth found to be selling illegal tobacco and vapes have had their lotteries licences terminated,…