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A black market seems inevitable. Although New Zealand may be better suited than most to keep their borders secure.

The question is, I guess, whether the damage to health is higher with them being legal or not.

I think that's the question.

If a black market supplies 1% of the population rather than a legal market supplying 5-10% of the population that's a health win.

What I don't know, having never been a smoker, is whether tobacco is "fun" enough to buy on the black market. Nicotine is very, very addictive, so I can see a reason for a black market for people who already smoke but would a 14 year old be tempted to try smoking compared to dope or ecstacy?

On the black market there's going to be tobacco in the country so the risk is probably diversion of legal supplies rather than smuggling I think. And I wonder what the margin is for selling illegal cigarettes rather than legal ones.

Depends on the cost of smuggling to New Zealand, I suspect.

And yes, my understanding is that nicotine is very addictive, but not actually any fun. Certainly not after the very beginning. Also very easy to spot unless you're only doing it at home, so easier to crack down on.

Or, alternatively, whether the black market in cigarettes can find space enough to run grow ops in Aotearoa/New Zealand...

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