cigarettes will make you poor here

[Diopos]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

All they're going to do is create a black market. Smokers, the hardcore ones at least, will do anything to get their fix.

Yeahp, or buy them via internet

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[Betonov]

Now all I need is a clipper and I'll buy a hold full of cigarettes in Bosnia and sell them in Australia

[August]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Now all I need is a clipper and I'll buy a hold full of cigarettes in Bosnia and sell them in Australia

My thought exactly.

[Reece]

I'm sick of governments dictating what you can and can't do with your own life, I'm an ex smoker and would never go back due to health reasons, my choice, it is up to the individual, it is there right to smoke or not, not the stinking government!!
A better idea would be to ban smoking for non smokers (if that were possible - school leavers) so they don't start but those that have done it all their lives should not be hit with ridiculous prices they can't afford, same thing is happening with alcohol and some people this is all they have in life! IMO.

Now all I need is a clipper and I'll buy a hold full of cigarettes in Bosnia and sell them in Australia

Be careful, that means navigating the Adriatic and those waters have been known to contain Italian cruise liners.

[kiwi_2005]

Smokes prices here at the moment is:
$14:50 - $16 for a pack of 20 filters
$31 for a pack of 30gram tobacco
$43 for a pack of 40gram tobacco
$53 for a pack of 50gram tobacco

Smokes have photos of bleeding hearts, gangrene toe etc on packets

Government next step is to make all cigarette packets plain color. Can't see what difference this will do if smokes were sold in plastic bags smokers will still buy them.

Though with the high costs we still have a high rate of smokers especially with our young starting up.

NZ is aiming for Smoke free by 2025

[u crank]

Yeah, here in Canada we have the same graphic pics on the packages. Also store owners cannot have smokes on display. You have to ask for them. It's pretty silly actually. Government protecting you from yourself. Glad I quit thirty years ago.

There is also a thriving illegal cigarette trade going on as well.

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Smokes prices here at the moment is:
$14:50 - $16 for a pack of 20 filters
$31 for a pack of 30gram tobacco
$43 for a pack of 40gram tobacco
$53 for a pack of 50gram tobacco

Ay caramba, that's pretty steep! We pay about half of it in Germany (5 Euros a pack, 40g tobacco a little cheaper - rolling tobacco used to be a lot less taxed.
Yet, the amount of illegal (untaxed) cigarettes is estimated to be about 22%, it went up parallel with the taxation level.
Basic economy 101, not understood by many politicians: when you raise the price indefinitely, the revenue doesn't.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Be careful, that means navigating the Adriatic and those waters have been known to contain Italian cruise liners.

And worse, Croatian fishermen