From: Vice
Shopping for Illegal Cigarettes in Sydney’s Chinatown
Shop owners are flouting Australia’s plain packaged cigarette laws by selling imported fags for less than you’d find them elsewhere in the city.
Walk through the bustling streets of Sydney’s Chinatown and you’ll notice coloured cigarette packaging littering the ground. Although they’re common to this area, they’re a rare sight in Australia since the government introduced across-the-board plain packaging in December 2012.
On a recent afternoon, I found myself sitting next to a lone young man at a café toying with a metallic blue cigarette packet. I asked where he got it from and he replied, “I got it from a convenience store in Chinatown, you can get it from any one of them.”
