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Date Posted: 03:46:04 11/07/25 Fri
Author: Curious
Author Host/IP: 49.196.178.164
Subject: Re: Story Inspiration Sources (The New Prohibition V5.20)
In reply to: Curious 's message, "Re: Story Inspiration Sources (The New Prohibition V5.0)" on 13:26:11 10/24/24 Thu

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"Illegal tobacco is burning a $4 billion hole in Australia's hip pocket but policy boffins are sceptical lowering the tax on legal cigarettes will stop the rot.

The economic cost of organised crime to Australia jumped to $82.3 billion in 2023/24, up from $68.7 billion in the previous 12 months, reports from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and Australian Institute of Criminology show.

Illicit tobacco's estimated economic cost rose to $4 billion, a four-fold increase in the past three years."

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/tobacco-black-market-sending-billions-up-in-smoke/ar-AA1PXeZl

"Australia's illicit tobacco trade has exploded into one of the nation's most violent and fastest-growing criminal markets, costing $4 billion in the 2023-24 financial year and helping push the total economic toll of organised crime to a record $82.3 billion.

Twin reports from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) and the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) reveal the economic impact of serious and organised crime jumped $13.6 billion in 12 months, fuelled by factors such as soaring black-market tobacco sales and increasingly brazen violence linked to turf wars.

The $4 billion cost of illicit tobacco in 2023–24, through lost tax revenue, healthcare costs and reduced productivity, marks a four-fold increase since 2020–21 and cements tobacco as the second-largest illicit commodity market after drugs."

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/australia-s-4-billion-illicit-tobacco-trade-has-become-one-of-the-nation-s-most-violent-criminal-markets/ar-AA1PVcMh

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  • Re: Story Inspiration Sources (The New Prohibition V5.21) -- Curious, 04:32:13 01/19/26 Mon
  • Re: Story Inspiration Sources (The New Prohibition V5.21) -- RuEmerald, 20:21:02 01/20/26 Tue
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