New laws to target Tasmania's illicit tobacco trade

The Examiner

Environmental Health Director Nick Bunker, Tasmania Police Assistant Commissioner Robert Blackwood, and Police Minister Felix Ellis have announced plans for new laws targeting the illicit tobacco trade in Tasmania.

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00:00As I mentioned, we're starting to see a number of different brands coming into the state.

00:04Some even play music.

00:06You can connect your phone, so they're getting pretty attractive to our youth,

00:11and we want to avoid these getting into the market.

00:13And then we've got our Chop Chop, which is our bulk tobacco,

00:16often brought into the state and then put into counterfeit packages

00:19and sold as legitimate products.

00:21And it's interesting, like say, we don't have the plain packaging requirements,

00:26but then you're seeing some of these other ones that do have the images on them.

00:31I suppose that's to try and kind of blend in with legal products.

00:34Is that the thing?

00:35Absolutely.

00:36And our tobacco control officers are very good at detecting the small irregularities in those packets.

00:41We're not going to identify that they don't require.

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