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Smoking plays an ample role

In the two years since January 2023, Australian news media have reported 212 firebombings of premises selling (or refusing to sell) illicit nicotine products, as well as multiple homicides, assaults, robberies targeting nicotine retailers, and the extortion and intimidation of law-abiding citizens who have been unwillingly co-opted as participants into the black market [5, 6]

Major tobacco companies are being held legally liable for medical complications caused by cigarettes in 2023