After shouting for two decades that plain packaging would, without question, lead to an increase in counterfeit tobacco, tobacco companies seem rather quiet about the fact that it seems to have done the exact opposite. Mike Ridgway, spokesman for seven UK packaging companies, highlighted the recent KPMG report on the illicit trade in Australia which showed growth in illegal consumption from 11.8% in 2012 to 13.9% in 2013 with the illicit brand Manchester (a take-off of Marlboro in design similarity) taking up a 1.5% market share in the country and illicit white products now amounting to 30% of domestic consumption according to the recent discarded pack survey
Also, a minor could sneak their parents card or borrow one from any legitimate card holder to use in a cigarette machine
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The final decision on the MRTPA has not been made by the FDA yet, however the first HTP was authorized in April 2019 for sale, without modified risk status