Mr Outram told 7.30 the profit margins for organised crime to import and sell illicit tobacco in Australia are too great
The industry is dominated by ITC, which has a strong grip on distributors and retailers
Robert Proctor, professor of the history of science at Stanford University, said cigarette smoking continued to grow throughout the 1960s and 1970s, reaching a peak of about 630 billion cigarettes, or more than 31 billion packs, smoked annually in the United States before the start of its decline in 1982
A twenty-a-day smoker spends somewhere around 6,000 a year on cigarettes
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