How to tackle Australia's illegal tobacco trade?
Episode 3 min

How to tackle Australia's illegal tobacco trade?

The illegal tobacco trade in Australia is booming after years of steep increases in the cost of legal cigarettes. Australia's had a tobacco excise since federation, but over the past 15 years it's more than quadrupled, making cigarettes $50 or more a packet. Now there are calls to slash the excise in a bid to stamp out organised crime linked to the illicit tobacco trade.

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