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 business addresses in Napier and Gisborne.
The black market is already very active in New Zealand. The last Government’s plans to gradually prohibit tobacco would have just seen it grow even more rapidly.
Prohibition has failed for alcohol and cannabis, so it is strange to see people so upset that this Government dropped Labour’s plans to prohibit tobacco.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
Prohibition has failed for alcohol and cannabis, so it is strange to see people so upset that this Government dropped Labour’s plans to prohibit tobacco.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
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