Retailers will soon need a licence to sell cigarettes. But more is needed to control the illegal trade

By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland
Hollie Bendotti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Thoracic Research Centre, The University of Queensland
Kylie Morphett, Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
Michaela Estelle Okninski, Senior Principal Social Scientist - Law Research, The University of Queensland

Retail outlets already or will soon need to have a licence to sell cigarettes. But there aren’t restrictions on the number of licensed outlets.

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