[Hikikomori]

IDK about that. In Sweden tobacco is heavily taxed, border control sometimes stops trucks loaded with smuggled cigarettes, with the resources they have it's assumed that many times more get through. I know some small shops sell tobacco for cheap under the table.

[nine_k]

What I talked about: country A only has a black market, country B has a heavily taxed but legal market.

What you are talking about: country A has a legal and low tax market, while country B has a heavily taxed but legal market.

Apples and oranges fail to compare.