The Herald Sun revealed almost every tobacco store surveyed across 110 Victorian suburbs was found selling illicit nicotine products.

Former Australian Federal Police detective sergeant Rohan Pike told 3AW Breakfast hosts Ross Stevenson and Russel Howcroft there had not been much effort in Victoria to stop this.

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“We haven’t tried terribly hard, particularly in this state, to shut these things down,” he said.

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