Pushing up the price of heroin cut crime. Why isn’t the same thing happening with tobacco?
- Posted on February 3, 2026
- By The Age
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Pushing up the price of heroin cut crime. Why isn’t the same thing happening with tobacco?
A new paper to be published this month uses Australia’s 2001 “heroin drought” as a natural experiment to answer that question. The answer has important things to tell us about our current drug crisis: illegal tobacco.
