Smokers! Don't Emigrate To Australia.....

nhboy

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"Cigarette taxes will jump by a hefty 13.7 per cent on Monday, the second of four outsized increases in as many years.

The excise on a pack of 20 will climb from $8.13 to $9.25, an increase of $1.12. The excise on a pack of 40 will climb from $16.26 to $18.51.

If fully passed on, it will push the price of a packet of 40 above $30 and push the price of some packets of 20 above $20. The increase means the price of cigarettes for casual smokers will approach $1 a stick.

Labor announced a series of four increases mid-last year, with the first of 12.5 per cent due on December 1 followed by three more on September 1 in each of the following three years."


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"The latest increase breaches significant price points," Australian Council on Smoking and Health president Mike Daube said. "It'll cost $7000 a year to smoke a pack a day.

"We estimate that just as a result of this increase, around 800 million fewer cigarettes will be smoked in Australia and around 60,000 smokers will quit."
 

blazinlow89

Big Poppa
They should do the same in America, rather than banning alternatives that work.

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