Dr. Xanthe Weston

Yep, and you've got the speakeasies, right, where all the alcohol is still available, it's just available on the black market and people are still going to engage in the things they enjoy.

I've never smoked, but, you know, if they said alcohol's illegal, I'd be like, well, how am I going to have my glass of wine on date night, you know?

You know what?

I totally get it.

I do.

But I probably wouldn't because I know that I'm feeding that illicit trade and I know the harm that comes from that, even those little acts.

And I also married a police officer.

That's not helping.

But, you know, because I know what the bigger picture is just because of what I do.

But I totally get why those little acts that look like more like you're being a little bit deviant rather than breaking the law, you know.

You're being a bit naughty because you're not doing what you're told by...

overreach of the government.

That's how it feels.

Whereas actually by buying them, you're feeding those underground trades, which leads to real serious harm.

Every one of our neighbourhoods, there'll be people who've been sex trafficked or being used as free labour in homes.

So if you just look around, you won't see it because it's very covert, but it's there.

It's the same people trading in humans as alcohol, as drugs, as cigarettes.

We're talking slave labor, literally slave labor.

Same people.

Do you want to fund them is the question you need to ask yourself when you're buying your cigarettes.