Comment on Illicit tobacco is 'out in the open' but what is the best way to deal with it?
Tau@aussie.zone 13 hours agoIf it’s black market, it’s still more of a hassle to buy.
Out of the three smokers I regularly work with two of them have found shops that sell black market tailormades and the other buys pouches off some internet site which is almost certainly also dodging tax. It doesn’t seem like they’re having any hassles finding and buying these things and with black market apparently being about half the price of cheap legit cigarettes you’d have to be pretty firm on your principles to take the financial hit.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
Yeah, we’ve dropped the ball. You actually need to do some enforcement to make this work, seems like that’s hardly being done. And increases in enforcement would pay for itself.
Making something annoying to do definitely is a winning strategy.
It’s not even criminal to use a VPN in China, but they are banned and make it very difficult use, you just accept your fate that they don’t really work anymore. It’s still possible to circumvent the Great Firewall, but requires way more effort than before. Most people just don’t, even those with a desire to.
Just that for our purposes, it’s for something worthwhile (In my opinion. Smoking is dumb, and as stated in another comment, someone’s “freedom” to do it isn’t convincing if you want to live in a social democracy.)