Cutting the tobacco excise won’t stop the illegal trade. This is how other countries solved the problem

By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of QueenslandSeptember 7, 2026

The illicit market for tobacco is not an inevitable result of high excise taxes.

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