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by Matsta 1278 days ago
Cigarettes are so expensive that no one really smokes them in NZ anyway, everyone has already moved to vapes.

I doubt that there will be a black market for tobacco as, by the time you smuggle them in, they still won't be that cheap.

Also, MPI (Ministry for Primary Industries) are even more strict on importing organic materials (or any biological for that matter) than Customs are on drugs.

In saying that, there was a big cigarette bust a couple of years back: https://www.customs.govt.nz/about-us/news/media-releases/cus...

Source: I'm Kiwi

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> Source: I'm Kiwi

Me too.

Last year I saw the first high quality black market tobacco.

Grown and processed locally.

What's the point of banning cigarettes, then?