Background and aims Tobacco smoking substantially contributes to poverty. Smoking-induced deprivation (SID) occurs when people continue smoking despite financial stress. This study examined (i) tren...

The secret push to turn the ABF into an elite spy agency collapsed in three years, leaving the country blind as the tobacco war exploded and crime gangs became a national security threat.

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Criminologist Dr James Martin thinks the federal budget announcement to tackle black market tobacco will backfire.

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Sweden records 41% fewer cancer cases than the EU average, despite similar nicotine consumption. World Vapers' Alliance's Michael Landl explains wh...

In an open letter, opposition MPs including frontbencher Andrew Hastie and deputy Nationals leader Darren Chester said: “Your proposed reforms do not go far enough.”

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Australia's smoke reduction policies have failed to reduce smoking while fueling a black market and huge reduction in tobacco excise revenue.

The experimental estimates are based on "nicotine metabolite concentrations" detected in wastewater samples, combined with data showing a collapse in spending on legal cigarettes and vapes.

Criminologist Dr James Martin thinks the federal budget announcement to tackle black market tobacco will backfire.

In the perpetual contest for the dumbest public health conference declaration, the Europeans are going for gold.

Australia’s steep cigarette excise increases and restrictive vaping policies have fuelled a massive illegal tobacco market while undermining the country’s long-standing harm-minimisation approach to p...

Australia’s tobacco wars are fuelling violence, with fire bombings and arson attacks spanning across the east coast. Now the federal government wants to treat these organised crime syndicates like ‘d...

Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only all...

Increased use of smoke-free nicotine products such as vapes could help to achieve an ambitious global goal of reducing smoking prevalence below 5% by 2040.

Australia’s tobacco wars are fuelling violence, with fire bombings and arson attacks spanning across the east coast. Now the federal government wants to treat these organised crime syndicates like ‘d...

Police are investigating whether a 49-year-old man shot in Altona North in Melbourne's west was a random victim of the illegal tobacco trade or was targeted by the offenders.

President of Antwerp court makes comments after anonymous judge warned country was turning into ‘a narco-state’

Where there’s demand, there will be supply, legal or not. From the ‘sly grog’ of the 1920s to the illicit vapes of today, getting regulation right is difficult.

This report assesses the scale, drivers and impacts of Australia’s illicit tobacco market, benchmarks Australia internationally and models how different policy approaches (excise reform plus strengthe...