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If the Government’s smokefree action plan does not adequately elevate nicotine vaping as the much safer alternative, then cigarette smuggling will become a bigger problem at New Zealand’s border, says a leading Kiwi Tobacco Harm Reduction advocate.
Her comments follow a media investigation which revealed Customs is currently seizing around 125,000 smuggled cigarettes and 155 kilograms of loose tobacco every month.
New Zealand Customs describes it as a lucrative market. In fact, it’s thought to be eight times more profitable than cocaine – and one which has attracted organised crime. Large scale, commercial-grade cigarette smuggling operators are now well established.
Saturday, 3 July 2021, 4:11 pm
If the Government’s smokefree action plan does not
adequately elevate nicotine vaping as the much safer
alternative, then cigarette smuggling will become a bigger
problem at New Zealand’s border, says a leading Kiwi
Tobacco Harm Reduction advocate.
Her comments follow a
media investigation which revealed Customs is currently
seizing around 125,000 smuggled cigarettes and 155 kilograms
of loose tobacco every month.
New Zealand Customs
describes it as a lucrative market. In fact, it’s thought
to be eight times more profitable than cocaine – and one
which has attracted organised crime. Large scale,
commercial-grade cigarette smuggling operators are now well
Press Release – Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy If the Governments smokefree action plan does not adequately elevate nicotine vaping as the much safer alternative, then cigarette smuggling will become a bigger problem at New Zealands border, says a leading Kiwi Tobacco Harm Reduction advocate. …
If the Government’s smokefree action plan does not adequately elevate nicotine vaping as the much safer alternative, then cigarette smuggling will become a bigger problem at New Zealand’s border, says a leading Kiwi Tobacco Harm Reduction advocate.
Her comments follow a media investigation which revealed Customs is currently seizing around 125,000 smuggled cigarettes and 155 kilograms of loose tobacco every month.