Follow the day’s news live. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Coalition says main focus of tobacco excise cut is tackling organised crime Anne Ruston , the shadow minister for health and aged care, spoke this morning to tout the Coalition’s plans to slash the tobacco excise by 80%, saying the effort is designed to “break the business model” of organised crime. This is very much designed to try and get the government back in control of the nicotine market, not organised crime gangs. … We are hoping that the combined package of what we’re proposing here, not just the dropping of the excise, but the regulation of the market and making it certainly more difficult for children to access these products. In the enforcement surge and the anti-smoking and anti-vaping camp