NewstalkZB reports: Police have restrained more than $2.5 million in assets, including four properties in Gisborne, after a discovery of undeclared tobacco was intercepted at the border. It comes after Customs intercepted 110kg of loose tobacco and more than 230,000 cigarettes – approximately 10,000 packets – concealed in Chinese tea packets in November last year, bound for residential and […]
Another big tobacco black market bust
Another big tobacco black market bust
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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: black markets, economics of smoking
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Causes and Control of Illegal Tobacco – Third Edition: 2021
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in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: black markets, offsetting behaviour, recycling
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California’s continued marijuana black market
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in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: black markets, marijuana decriminalisation, unintended consequences
Good @LibDemAus chart @nzdrug @familyfirstnz @TaxpayersUnion
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in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: black markets, law and order, marijuana decrimilization, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences

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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, environmental economics Tags: black markets, nanny state, plastic bags

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in entrepreneurship Tags: black markets, economics of immigration

California’s Legal Weed Is So Heavily Taxed and Regulated That the Black Market Might Survive
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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: black markets, marijuana decriminalisation
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