I have a piece in the works on related topics in the US, but this one from Vice in the UK is worth reading. Advocates of prohibitionist tobacco policies in the US assume that compliance will be an easy matter of regulation; what's happening in the UK should serve as a warning of how they are more likely to turn out.
Criminal Gangs Are Making Billions Selling Illegal Tobacco From Derelict Shops
Middle Eastern gangs are using rundown shops in the UK as a front to sell illegal tobacco. The immigrants working for them are victims of modern slavery, investigators tell VICE World News.
vice.com