Kia ora sir/madam, I hope you’re keeping well and safe! My name is Nalin Arachchilage, and I currently work as a Lecturer in Cyber Security at the University of Auckland (UoA), New Zealand. I am currently working with a group of researchers from the Faculty of Health at UoA on an illicit tobacco research project. I wondered if we could access the dataset related to illicit tobacco in NZ (or illicit tobacco in general). I was wondering if there is a better tool we can use to get dataset in NZ for our research purposes, other than scraping data using Python script from scratch. Area of focus: This research focuses on investigating the size and scope of illicit trafficking of tobacco in New Zealand and the diverse types of tobacco-related products available on the crypto markets. Furthermore, we examine how tobacco products are distributed within New Zealand from a global network through illicit online platform economies known as cryptomarkets. Many thanks. Cheers, Nalin — Dr Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage | Lecturer in Cyber Security School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science The University of Auckland | Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau 38 Princes St • Building 303 • Level 4 • Room 496 Auckland Central 1010 • New Zealand E: nalin.arachchilage@auckland.ac.nz M: +64 0 21 678 611 W: https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/nara631

csv format would be sufficient.

Area of focus: This research work focuses on investigating the size and scope of illicit trafficking of tobacco in New Zealand, and the diverse types of tobacco-related products available on the cryptomarkets. Furthermore, we examine how tobacco products are distributed within New Zealand from a global network through illicit online platform economies known as cryptomarkets.

Cyber and social media analysis:
We will also develop innovative cyber tools to examine the scale and nature of illicit tobacco trading activity on the internet. The latter is a new addition to the published methods used to date in this field and will be of growing importance as illicit online trading evolves. The rapid growth of e-commerce and proliferation of postal and small parcel delivery services have had a significant impact on the trade in illicit tobacco products in many countries.

Area of focus: This research work focuses on investigating the size and scope of illicit trafficking of tobacco in New Zealand, and the diverse types of tobacco-related products available on the cryptomarkets. Furthermore, we examine how tobacco products are distributed within New Zealand from a global network through illicit online platform economies known as cryptomarkets.

Cyber and social media analysis:
We will also develop innovative cyber tools to examine the scale and nature of illicit tobacco trading activity on the internet. The latter is a new addition to the published methods used to date in this field and will be of growing importance as illicit online trading evolves. The rapid growth of e-commerce and proliferation of postal and small parcel delivery services have had a significant impact on the trade in illicit tobacco products in many countries.