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For instance, during product shortages or when government regulations limit access to certain goods, black markets can meet consumer demand and help people obtain necessary goods and services

But now the cigarette companies have lost much of their influence over the CBC and other groups representing African Americans, no doubt because defending menthol cigarettes is impossible to square with the slogan Black Lives Matter. Tens of thousands of Black lives are lost each year to smoking

The COVID-19 pandemic saw a surge in the black market for certain medications and even vaccines

But since then, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute warned that some broader forms of organised crime - including scammers and rogue traders - could effectively become decriminalised, due to a lack of funding

whats being banned is the manufacture and marketing of menthol cigarettes