I dunno if tobacco is the kinda drug that would stand to support a black martket .
In the US at least there's long been cigarette smuggling operations by organized crime to buy up a bunch of cartons in states with low tobacco taxes and then break them up into individual packs or loose cigarettes for sale in states with high taxes.
With the exception of it being useful for managing schizophrenia does it offer anyone any real benefit?
Whether someone finds nicotine/the other psychoactive chemicals in tobacco relaxing or pleasant seems to be a highly individualized thing, like how some people find the high from weed to be pleasant and for other people it feels like a hangover and sleep deprivation all rolled into one shitty package. That said, tobacco basically just gets used poorly to self-medicate undiagnosed and untreated anxiety and depression in the people it actually has an effect on, and would probably be better replaced with full, free access to actual treatment.
In the US at least there's long been cigarette smuggling operations by organized crime to buy up a bunch of cartons in states with low tobacco taxes and then break them up into individual packs or loose cigarettes for sale in states with high taxes.
Whether someone finds nicotine/the other psychoactive chemicals in tobacco relaxing or pleasant seems to be a highly individualized thing, like how some people find the high from weed to be pleasant and for other people it feels like a hangover and sleep deprivation all rolled into one shitty package. That said, tobacco basically just gets used poorly to self-medicate undiagnosed and untreated anxiety and depression in the people it actually has an effect on, and would probably be better replaced with full, free access to actual treatment.
In the US it takes a U-haul and if they find you holding there is a good chance they won't know you have hot cigs.
Slightly more hard work to boat en enough to justify the expense