Australian Excise Rates for Tobacco - 2016

[Duxnutz]

No doubt a NC smoker... only had 1 package stopped myself from that part of the planet.

CC's though, bend over and wait for it.

They hate smoking, but they love money...If the one track minded politicians squeeze as much $$ out of the everyday smoker as possible, with a light at the end of the tunnel that snuffs out smoking for the younger generations forever, they think they are on the right track. Makes sense to them that the price increases, so if 50% of smokers quit in the next 4 years (which is highly unlikely) they will have doubled their duty pot and therefore raised the same amount of money with 50% less drain on the health system RE tobacco related illness...Now I'll take off my "inconsiderate government official hat" and shed some light on the reality of the issue...Advertising Regulations and Plain packaging was the beginning of the end of B&M's in Australia. For years now many smokers have been sending a lot of our money oversees, increased our smuggling efforts and in turn helped close a lot of Aussie businesses. Expect to see some really clever smuggling attempts increase as the duty becomes more out of reach for the every man. Then one day it will be illegal and bang we've just taken 100 years backwards step in society. Money will be thrown away on "The War on Tobacco", criminals will have a whole new industry open up to them over night. Instead of having a multi billion dollar tax that can actually be put to good use, they will ruin that revenue stream and it'll go the same way as the war on drugs... lives lost, money wasted, police sticking their noses in morality.Prohibition does not work, people will smoke as a choice regardless of legality.There are no people who don't do drugs because they can't find them .... it's a moral choice, and in my opinion governments and law enforcement shouldn't stop people making moral choices, they should only protect people from one another.Let's forget for a second that they have put the casual cigar smoker in the same ******* bag as a pack a day cigarette smoker, which is ridiculous in itself..They are about to make another mistake that will ruin an industry, it's tradition and another freedom in the already overly regulated country that men and women died in the belief they were fighting for our freedoms...Wake up! This country needs a ******* shake up!Lol rant over.. stay smoky

I do think we as a country have lost the plot. With house prices what they are (SYD at least), and stagnating opportunities job wise I can see a lot more young people leaving our shores and working overseas. Matter of fact I'm beginning to wonder who would wanna retire here?