Tobacco companies are worried about a European-wide coordinated tax increase.
Big Tobacco argues that extra taxes will push up black market trade, but not everyone agrees.
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It does work though. Here in Australia you still see people smoke here and there, but you notice the difference when travelling around the world.
Went to Paris and Rome in December and it was really annoying having to deal with smokers and vapers seemingly everywhere.
Australia has a massive cigarette black market now though, with big organised crime syndicates running it. They need to roll back the taxes to regain the market.
It's not nearly as massive as the "legit" tobacco industry. If it was that big an issue, people would be smoking everywhere. And as I mentioned it's obvious how much more people are smoking in Europe compared to here.
So the point stands, that in absolute terms, smoking is way down. Your average person doesn't want to buy cigarettes from their local drug dealer.
Just ban it for everyone who’s born after 2007
That's what New Zealand did, would've been a good choice before a massive crime network was established in Australia. The people selling illegal cigarettes will just sell them to kids anyway.
