Christopher Luxon on cigarette black market claims | TVNZ Breakfast

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says it's a "natural reality" that a black market would emerge if there was a limit on the number of stores that sell cigarettes to Kiwis.

Luxon has pointed to a potential black market as justification for repealing parts of the last government's smokefree legislation.

The law would have reduced the number of outlets selling tobacco products from about 6000 nationwide to about 600.


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