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As Rohan Pike, former leader of the Australian Border Force's Tobacco Strike Team, told The Sydney Morning Herald last year, "The margins are huge, the enforcement is low, so it's a low-risk, high-profit business." Australia's policy response to these massive illicit markets is to crack down even harder
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Makers of India's traditional cigarettes - which are known as beedis - have also joined in the protests against the new signs, stating that the rule change could bring the industry to a "grinding halt." Meanwhile, the Tobacco Institute of India, which represents the cigarette companies, argues the law changes could boost the smuggling of illegal cigarettes
In December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act 2019, which bans the production, manufacturing, import, export, transport, sale, distribution or advertisement (including online advertisement and sale) of e-cigarettes in India