Government tobacco taxes have backfired so spectacularly that 90% of cigarettes are forecast to be sold illegally by the end of the decade. 

Theo Foukarre from the Australian Association of Convenience Stores joined Gary Hardgrave to explain how high prices are fuelling a violent black market while sending local "mum and dad" shops broke.

Government tobacco taxes have backfired so spectacularly that 90% of cigarettes are forecast to be sold illegally by the end of the decade. 
Theo Foukarre from the Australian Association of Convenience Stores joined Gary Hardgrave to explain how high prices are fuelling a violent black market while sending local "mum and dad" shops broke.

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4BC Drive with Gary Hardgrave

Australia’s $67 billion tobacco tax "insanity" is funding organised crime

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