Ukraine’s business police, known as the Bureau of Economic Security, searched and confiscated products from e-cigarette sellers in 12 regions, including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zakarpattia, Pavlo Buzdyhan, the bureau’s deputy director, told the Kyiv Independent.
This would lower tax revenue as an average, as demand would be lowered massively for the product (why risk being in a raid even in a ‘legit’ shop you can’t know is actually legit; also price naturally increases with both taxes and the seizure of product reducing supply) and the resources spent investigating pointless things like this are resources that can’t be spent on, you know, murder and looting which is common in war-torn countries. Even white ones.
I disagree with your entire premise that raids have anything to do with demand on an addictive product.
See all illegal substances, and their demand across the board - so much demand that people risk fines and imprisonment to deliver these items.
I honestly don’t understand how you can purport to know the cost-benefit ratio of police salaries, nicotine vape sales, and the tax revenue they generate; it seems like you’re talking out of your hind quarters.