From: stuff.co.nz
BLAIR ENSOR AND SAM SHERWOOD
A man armed with an axe robbed two Christchurch dairies on Monday.
A lucrative black market for cigarettes is fuelling an increase in armed robberies, with criminals targeting dairies and stealing tobacco products to order.
Some dairy owners are toying with the idea of pulling cigarettes from their shelves, but the decision is not an easy one with tobacco products making up a large amount of their business.
