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How $40-a-Pack Cigarettes Pushed Australians to the Black Market

February 15, 2026

Tax hikes made cigarettes in Australia the most expensive in the world. They have also helped fuel a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise in bootleg tobacco.

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