In the past four years, the number of tobacco stores registered in NSW has surged from 14,500 to 19,500, as the black market has exploded.

The government is entrenching smoking, exposing the public to unregulated products, and creating fertile ground for organised crime.

Locked in a showdown with big tobacco, then-prime minister Julia Gillard took to the airwaves one early morning in 2011 and threw down the gauntlet. "We're not going to be intimidated by big ...

Landlords would be given the power to evict tenants caught selling illegal cigarettes in a plan to fight the thriving tobacco ...