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Assessing cigarette smuggling at a time of border closure to international tourists: survey of littered packs in New Zealand

Tobacco control, 2022-08, Vol.33 (2), p.273-274 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Assessing cigarette smuggling at a time of border closure to international tourists: survey of littered packs in New Zealand
Author: Wilson, Nick ; Carter, Rachel ; Heath, Deborah ; Wei, Zhang ; Martinez, Emmanuelle ; Robertson, Lindsay ; Zhangmo, Paaras ; Bloomfield, Sophia ; Thomson, George W ; Hoek, Janet ; Edwards, Richard
Subjects: Airports ; Black markets ; Boundaries ; Central business districts ; Cigarettes ; Cities ; Commerce ; Coronaviruses ; Counterfeiting ; COVID-19 ; Crime ; Environment ; Estimates ; Humans ; Illegal tobacco products ; Letter ; New Zealand ; Packaging ; Pandemics ; Population ; Population distribution ; Ports ; Public health ; Public policy ; Rural areas ; Sampling ; Smuggling ; Surveillance and monitoring ; Surveys ; Tax revenues ; Taxes ; Tobacco ; Tobacco Industry ; Tobacco Products
Is Part Of: Tobacco control, 2022-08, Vol.33 (2), p.273-274
Description: Evidence suggests tobacco smuggling into NZ occurs mainly via shipping containers, the postal system and international airline staff.3–5 Methods Collection of tobacco packaging litter by all the authors through convenience sampling while on routine travel around the country, supplemented with purposeful sampling in key cities and major ports. Adjusting by population distribution resulted in an estimated national prevalence of foreign packs of 5.4% (95% CI: 4.4% to 6.6%) (table 1).Table 1 Results of the littered tobacco pack survey in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic-related tight border controls (May 2021–April 2022) Locality Number of foreign packs (A)* Total packs collected (B) Population of area† Proportion of total population (%) (C) Proportion of packs which were foreign (%) (D)=(A)/(B) Calculations to determine adjusted national prevalence (C)×(D) Auckland Territorial Authority (largest city and major port) 24 158 1 715 600 33.5 15.2 5.1% Wellington City (capital city and a major port) 11 854 217 000 4.2 1.3 0.1% Seven other port cities‡ 0 433 985 500 19.2 0.0 0.0% Rest of NZ (cities, towns, rural areas) 1 145 2 204 500 43.0 0.7 0.3% Total NZ 36 1590 5 122 600 100.0 2.3 5.4% (rounded sum of the above) *Excludes the 11 Australian packs found as these can be legally sold in NZ (and indeed the brands and variants are found in NZ stores). †Population estimated by Stats NZ as of 30 June 2021.10 ‡These other port cities were: [...]the 5.4% estimate for smuggled cigarette packs is similar to previous estimates for NZ, though the problem is highly locality specific.
Publisher: England: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0964-4563
EISSN: 1468-3318
DOI: 10.1136/tc-2022-057603
PMID: 36028304
Source: MEDLINE
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