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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade has been arrested - does this mean the end of the so-called ‘tobacco ...

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 ...

About a dozen shops across WA have been shot at or set on fire allegedly by recruits of tobacco syndicates. Most are back up ...

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 ...