Regions Australia
Black market cigarettes openly purchased in Melbourne as legal tobacco trade plummets
For the past decade, plain-packaging laws and steep tax increases have helped to reduce the national smoking rate, but a booming black market has led some to question whether the federal government's policy is still working.
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