Tag: blackmarket
Australia Insists on Opting for Nicotine Prohibition, Despite Failing Miserably
Recent stats from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that nicotine use skyrocketed by nearly 40% from 2017 to 2025, despite the country...
Egypt: E-Cig Regulations Are Needed to Counter the Illicit Trade Market
Egypt has very high smoking rates and many smokers have been switching to e-cigarettes, which remain unregulated. This has resulted in a lot of...
Vape Bans Are Contributing to an Ever Expanding Black Market
Earlier this month, testimony at the Massachusetts Department of Revenue’s Illegal Tobacco Task Force discussed data on how e-cig users are responding to vaping...
Mongolia: Tobacco Tax did not Increase Illicit Cigarette Trade
In May 2017, the Mongolian government had increased the import tobacco tax by 30%, followed by a 10% excise tobacco tax increase in January...
Hong Kong’s E-Cig Ban Will Benefit Only Tobacco Companies
Last October, a Hong Kong Official had announced a complete ban on e-cigarettes and other innovative tobacco products, in an unexpected U-turn by the...
Australian Authorities Seize 57 Million Illegal Cigarettes
The investigation has began in 2017 and has so far included ten seizures, however this was the only one to have happened out of...
