Monday, 4 August 2025
No smokes without fire in Australia
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Australia saw another two murders in its ongoing nicotine wars last week and the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has finally had e...
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Endless battle with illicit tobacco market - BBC
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The BBC has been waking up to the scale of Britain's illicit tobacco market. Packs of illicit whites sold for a fiver are one of the mo...
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Semi-criminalisation
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I've written about the Online Safety Act and the broader issue of semi-criminalisation in Britain for The Critic . Downloading random ...
Minimum pricing - a warning from 2017
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Writing about gambling on my Substack yesterday, I had cause to mention an article I wrote for Spectator Health in 2017 which has long sin...
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
HMRC has its head in the sand about illicit tobacco
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A study published last week estimated that 26.8 billion cigarettes are smoked each year in the UK. The state-funded pressure group Actio...
Thursday, 17 July 2025
Just rejoice at this news
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Some good news for consumers and taxpayers in the Politico newsletter... EU funding cuts force health NGOs to slash staff Health NGOs a...
High taxes fuel illicit trade - shocker!
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It's almost surreal to hear people insist that the black market in tobacco is (a) negligible, and (b) unrelated to tobacco taxes. In pla...
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