From: The Sydney Morning Herald
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Since smoking was banned in August, the price of a pack of cigarettes has sky-rocketed from $28 on the prison buy-ups scheme to $300 on the black market, prison sources have told Fairfax Media.
Matches and papers, once sold through the buy-ups scheme for $3, now fetch up to $90.
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“The government might not realise it but they have just handed over another multi-million dollar business to the criminals.”
