Between the recent AP story on Mexican cartels supplying illicit vapes and now this NYT story on Australia's criminal cigarette market, it feels like media is starting to pick up on the failures of prohibitionist tobacco control policy. If only someone had written two books warning about this!
How $40-a-Pack Cigarettes Pushed Australians to the Black Market
Tax hikes made cigarettes in Australia the most expensive in the world. They have also helped fuel a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise in bootleg tobacco.
nytimes.com