"If I was to buy 10 million cigarettes, cheap whites in Asia, I could probably buy them [and] import them in a container into Australia for about $250,000 and that container would translate to about $7.5 million on the street,"he said
Plus, the tobacco environment is diversifying thanks to the emergence of products such as e-cigarettes, the health effects of which researchers are still working to understand as their popularity among young people grows
As the popularity of, and the sales relating to, vaping have increased, so have the number of injuries caused by these potentially dangerous devices
Dark Burley, known as Dark-Fired Kentucky or simply Kentucky, instead of air-drying, is dried over an open fire so that the tobacco leaves are both roasted and smoked