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Jacob Shteyman

New data lights up enormity of tobacco black market

Legal tobacco use has fallen to less than a third of the 2017 level as the black market surges. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Four in five vapes and cigarettes consumed in Australia were bought on the black market, up from 12 per cent less than a decade earlier, according to new official estimates.

The data, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, painted a much more sobering picture of the scale of the problem compared to the government's hand-picked Illicit Tobacco and E-cigarette Commissioner.

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