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Cigarette prices to jump by almost 7% amid growing concern about Australia’s booming black market
(www.theguardian.com)
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The government could really fuck up the black market if they were smart about it. How much margin do you have to make in a black market to offset the risk of prosecution? Just do the maths. When you control investigation, enforcement, prosecution and excises you would have to be really stupid to fuck it up like this.