Reporting and payment to Danish Environmental Protection Agency Every quarter of a year registered businesses report the number of filters sold (reported in pcs)
After Australia began "ramping up excise" from 2010, he says, the higher taxes gave criminals "a free kick into the market." By 2015, his team was making arrests but soon realised "we weren't going to arrest our way out, because it was so big." In some cases, Pike says, the problem only worsened: "Some of those criminals who we put in jail came out and became bigger and better and became actually key players in the illicit market." Pike points to Kazem Hamad, who was jailed for heroin smuggling, deported to Iraq, and then allegedly built a global crime syndicate "on his laptop from Iraq," becoming "the major importer and distributor of illicit tobacco in Australia." "The government's policy has basically meant that we're putting our health in the hands of criminals," he says
As some of the children pointed out, they could get small cans for less than half the price of a can of Coke, or could club together to make the most of four-for-a-pound deals
Types of filters: paper vs glass vs pre-cut Paper filters made from thin cardboard are pretty common
Also under consideration was a ban on flavored nicotine and tobacco products
Prior that date, 19 states and Washington D.C