Sky-high tobacco prices in Australia have created a lucrative black market, analysts say, sparking a violent "tobacco war" and syphoning away billions in potential tax revenue. Faced with a pack of 25 ...

Despite a record $15.7 million nicotine seizure, experts say Australia's multi-billion-dollar illicit tobacco and vape market continues to thrive, exposing the limits of raids and crackdowns.

Health campaigners say the incoming New Zealand government's plan to end a ban on selling cigarettes is a "huge win for the tobacco industry" - Copyright AFP Pedro ...

Australia is facing an explosion in the tobacco black market that’s now the country’s biggest public-health threat, Health Minister Mark Butler said Friday, warning the government plans a major ...

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson told a NSW parliament probe into the illicit trade on Wednesday morning about 250 tonnes of illicit and tobacco and vapes were being held at their exhibit ...

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 ...