BRISBANE, Queensland, May 6 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement:
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services
The Honourable Tim Nicholls
Record-breaking raids in war on illicit tobacco and dangerous vapes
* Queensland has seized the nation's largest ever haul of illegal cigarettes and vapes by a health authority, under Queensland Health-led Operation Appaloosa.
* More than 30 locations were raided, with 76,000 vapes, 19 million cigarettes and 3.6 tonnes of loose tobacco seized.
* The raids come as more than $5 million in fines were issued in the first week of the Government's nation-leading fines - over $1 million more than in the final four months of Labor.
Queensland has stepped up the war against illicit ...