BRISBANE, Queensland, April 3 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement:
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services
The Honourable Tim Nicholls
Tough new fines to extinguish illegal tobacco and vapes
* The Crisafulli Government delivers on promise and introduces nation's toughest fines for shops supplying or possessing illicit tobacco and vapes.
* Illegal operators to be hit with on-the-spot fines in excess of $30,000 for the supply of illicit tobacco and vapes from today.
* Crisafulli Government determined to stamp out the dangerous black-market trade, that flourished under the former Labor Government.
The Crisafulli Government will issue the nation's heftiest fines for rogue store operators caught stocking an...