Barbershops and car yards exposed in tobacco crackdown
A week-long crackdown across Western Australia and the Northern Territory has targeted 66 locations selling illicit tobacco and vapes, including barbershops and car yards. Authorities seized more than a million cigarettes, half a tonne of loose tobacco, 9,500 vapes and 6,000 nicotine pouches, stopping almost $4 million in illegal revenue. With public tip-offs helping close approximately one store every second day, debate continues over whether reducing federal tobacco excise would disrupt the black market.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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