How Australia's fight with big tobacco fuelled a black market
Source: ABC News
Successive governments have increased the tax on cigarettes and tobacco to drive down smoking rates — but having helped with one problem, it has contributed to another.
Locked in a showdown with big tobacco, then-prime minister Julia Gillard took to the airwaves one early morning in 2011 and threw down the gauntlet.
"We're not going to be intimidated by big tobacco's tactics, whether they're political tactics, wheth… [7600 chars]