Victoria to introduce tobacco licensing scheme
Victoria is set to adopt a tobacco licensing scheme amid a flood of illegal cigarettes and vapes, as well as dozens of linked fire bombings.
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Victoria is set to adopt a tobacco licensing scheme amid a flood of illegal cigarettes and vapes, as well as dozens of linked fire bombings.
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Illicit tobacco and vapes and a changing regulatory environment continue to provide significant challenges for manufacturers and retailers.
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New smoking products have created a radical shift in the way people are purchasing and consuming nicotine, but how will the industry react?
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New regulations surrounding the sale of nicotine vaping products are set to cause wide-spread confusion across retailers.
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The operation was one of the biggest weeks ever of disrupting illicit tobacco growing operations in Australia.
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A federal government proposal to allow pharmacies to sell smoke-free tobacco, to the exclusion of convenience stores has been condemned by the industry.
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Police have seized more than 740g of dried tobacco from a property in the Central West of NSW. The five-acre illegal plantation was discovered in Mendooran, north of Dubbo, last week. Officers also found four drying kilns at the property and have estimated the haul to be worth more than $5 million. It has
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Another illegal tobacco operation has been shut down. Officers from NSW Police and Australian Taxation Office discovered the 10.3 tonne haul near Goulburn last week. The operation included a hothouse and three kilns on site – one which was in the process of drying tobacco during the search, as well as four acres of tobacco
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The Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) has warned that the Government’s latest legal tobacco tax hike will only lead to bolstering Australia’s illegal cigarette trade while consumers and retailers bear the brunt. The 12.5% tax increase is the seventh consecutive annual tax hike and reinforces Australia’s position as one of the world’s most expensive
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The Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) has commended the Tasmanian Government for recognising the threat to small businesses that raising the legal tobacco purchasing age would have, as well as the boost it would give to criminals supplying the black market trade of illegal tobacco. A Bill proposing to raise the legal age from
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The Australiasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) has warned the Tasmanian Parliament that raising the age of legal tobacco purchase will fuel the illegal cigarette trade in Australia. The Tasmanian Parliament is currently preparing to debate a Bill proposing to raise the age from which adults can purchase legal tobacco to 21. According to AACS
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Two raids in regional NSW and VIC saw authorities seize and destroy over $18.5 million worth of tobacco. News.com.au reported a tobacco crop of around seven hectares in NSW was taken, and a similar amount was seized from a Victorian property. ATO assistant commissioner Peter Vujanic said the total illicit tobacco raid is worth around
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Two men were recently charged after reportedly importing 1.1 million illegal cigarettes. The two men falsely declared the cigarettes as black tea through Melbourne Airport. The Herald Sun reported that the haul was worth more than $10 million. The cigarettes were imported via multiple air cargo shipments, across from the United Arab Emirates. Colin Drysdale,
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