For those of you who love to suck the golden fruit battery or a durry made from the floor of the hen coop – you might want to stock up…..
Posted by Scrapthepolltax
For those of you who love to suck the golden fruit battery or a durry made from the floor of the hen coop – you might want to stock up…..
Posted by Scrapthepolltax
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No need to stock up. Illegal vapes are **everywhere**, a shop 20m’s down the road will also be selling them
They’ve been doing it for months.
I think the ‘new’ tobacconist at hurstville is still shut down from the previous wave
Nah this is normal. The shop will close for a few months and then open again with nothing changed. Nothing will stop my $10 ciggies
This is the One Stop Grocery on Enmore Rd isn’t it? I recognise the building across the road.
Disposables were already illegal before they killed off the whole industry. But funny enough, they are everywhere. Another good side hustle for organized crime.
Dodgy grammar? Must be NSW Government setting a good example for the kids.
they announced a crack down and showed the first wave the next suburb over in the news about a month ago. Shut down 3 places. Next day they did another suburb. So on and so forth
Looks like they closed down 3 on Enmore Road:
[https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Pages/closure-register.aspx](https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Pages/closure-register.aspx)
It would also be good if they could update (or enforce) the “Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Act 2023” so that shops can’t display/use the word “Tobacco” / “Tobacconists” on their shopfront.
Another one down on King St too near my workshop.
Half of them still standing though.
I saw another place in newtown get shut down as well!
Good, vaping is just terrible for you.
They need to start introducing criminal penalties for people selling them.
Doesnt make a difference, they will be up and running again or somewhere else will start doing them. Just look at England and youll see how it will go here. The government’s greed has created a multi billion dollar a year industry and they have no way off stopping it.
Just want to point out, they’re making these closures sound like they’re looking out for the health of the public by including NSW health in on this stuff, but if it was looking out for the health of the public, they’d just make cigarettes illegal. This is purely just about smoke shops selling under the counter goods, the government doesn’t give a fuck about your health with this shit.
And no, I’m not a smoker.
These places open a LOT faster than they get shut down.
The price of untaxed smokes and vapes is going down not up.
This is not a sign the government is winning.
Last week I saw King of the Pack on Marrickville road that had been there for years shut down. A new one opened up next to Marrickville Legal Centre almost immediately just 500 metres away.
Another one on the corner of Illawarra and Warren roads has had a For Lease sign for weeks but is still open.
Maybe just regulate and tax them effectively.
lol at people going down the route of thinking further criminalisation will be effective.
Been going on since [November](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/illegal-tobacco-retailers-issued-90-day-bans-in-nsw/106036030). New laws can shut-down a tobacconist for 90 days and the owner has to re-apply for a tobacco licence when the 90 days is over.
Exact same situation in Rozelle on Victoria at the intersection with Darling
Damnit, now where am I gonna get my illegally imported Fanta flavours!!!
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Yeah I was visiting family in Brisbane a few weeks back and they’d been cracking down on tobacconists up that way so maybe it’s a big operation
F
About time.
There will be another shop re-spawning within hours.
There’s too much profit in it and unless the Govt. identifies and hits the root cause this will continue.
Plod needs to investigate higher up the chain.
Easiest solution is to make vape related conditions exempt from medicare.
Quit smoking 🚭
Nicotine is taxed legal and regulated. Should be no one’s business how I put it in my body.
Prohibition doesn’t work.
Local barber got shut down too
As someone who only sells legal tobacco in my shop, I’m about to go out of business due to the lack of trade and slim margins. It is currently financially unviable to sell legal tobacco.
There’s a “lolly shop” near me that opened up a little while ago. A few of those self serve lolly bins, a fridge with coke and red bull and someone behind the counter.
Not a single sign . no advertising, nothing in the windows.
Lots of adults going in there buying lollies. Its near a laundromat, so when I’m washing dog blankets, I get a good view.
Wonder how long this one will last. The last shop there was a tobacconists.
There’s also a “$2 shop” in a small out of the way arcade. It’s got a couple of shelves in there with random homewares and cookware on them. shelves only ¼ filled.
It’s been there for like 6 months. They are selling something..
One down, only another couple of thousand to go now.
You ask as you go to buy dodgy vapes….
Considering the amount of them in the CBD, that’s around a third of all shops to be closed down…
Are people reporting shops or are the police doing it? Still so many shops still selling vapes.
No need to stock up. Minn’s approach has cause hundreds of new local websites to open where prices are much the same and it’s delivered to your door. It’s now easier than ever to get bootleg tobacco.
You’ll now order via text and it’ll be in the mailbox 2 days later. They’ll adapt
I want back the smoking Labubu.
I gave up my eye-patch, but obviously time to sail the Pirate seas again
Oh wait, this is illegal tobacco, not illegal downloads…
lol stock up. There are now online vape dealers to organise them. The black market (caused by the government) will always adapt accordingly.
Don’t know why they haven’t been doing this from the start. Black market cigs and vapes are costing the government 10’s of 1000’s at least for each shop. Surely its worth it(fiscally, which is all they care about) to crack down hard on them.
Where will I get my American candies