The quantity of nicotine consumed in Australia has increased by 40 per cent in the past eight years.

3AW Mornings host Tom Elliott said he believed the current excise tax, which had driven [up] prices of legally acquired tobacco products, had clearly contributed to the growth in black market trading.

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“It used to work, it hasn’t worked for most of the last decade, let’s try something different,” he said.

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