GOODBYE, MARLBORO MAN Cigarettes In Australia Will Soon Have To Be Sold In Identical Packs

good news everyone

Life is hard down there! lol

Is aussie smokers lobby that weak ?

OH! The Trick to quiting must be shoving my head up my ass.

Worked for you.

Yup, it's a hidden tax. The government mandates that the price be raised, because they know Australians would freak out if they saw that they were paying a 1900% tax.

just aussies in general

That is beyond ridiculous. It also won't work if the objective is to limit how many cigarettes someone smokes.

All someone would have to do is get a nonsmoking friend to acquire a smoking license and buy cigs on their behalf.

More insanity. I don't really see how this would reduce smoking. People don't buy cigarettes because of what the packaging looks like.

The tobacco companies do have a point that this is an expropriation of intellectual property. It will be interesting to see what the World Trade Organization has to say about that.

Your job my friend is to market a wraparound sticker in the old format look without infringing on copyrights. Sell em right next to the cigs.

Oh, yes ... If someone has nothing to lose, they are capable of anything. :-).

SMOKERS who light up on patrolled Victorian beaches this summer could be fined $140 [link to www.theage.com.au]

It's government retardation. Government wants to appear caring and supporting and nanny-like at every turn, so you will let your guard down and let it ass-fuck you.

Liberal socialist government control. Liberals not only want to own you, but also control everything on the face of the earth. I wonder how the liberals will package their precious marijuana?

Should we ban smoking everywhere? Yes, we should ban smoking or No, we should not ban smoking. ... Smoking only harms those who choose to stay around it, if you dont like it, dont walk near it. ... Holland has cannabis legal, and it has one of the lowest usages in the world.

In the U.S. prices vary state to state, sometimes even city to city. The federal government puts a big tax on cigarettes, then sates get in on the act, and some local municipalities [like NYC] can add their own additional sales tax.

I live in Massachusetts [Boston] and a pack of generic cigarettes or a no-name brand cost less than 6 dollars, 2 for 10 dollars. Some name brands go for as low as 6 dollars and change up to 8+ dollars a pack for the 'hip' brands like American Spirit or Nat Shermans.

BUT, so-called little cigars or filtered cigars [20 to a pack] are also really cigarettes, wrapped in a tobacco sheet product as opposed to paper,and with sightly more tobacco, which allow them to be legally classified as cigars and taxed at a MUCH LOWER rate than cigarettes. A pack of little cigars or filtered cigars can cost as little as 2 dollars here. I don't know why so many cigarette smokers haven't figured this scam out yet, but little cigars fly below the radar screen, and tobacco products aren't advertised in the U.S., so these are big reasons for this.

You can also just roll your own cigarettes, which is a very cheap alternative.

Think how much money we'd all save if bankers were required to have a warning tattooed on their foreheads.

The addiction to compound interest will drive you to the grave!

I have smoked for fifty-six years, and I have loved every drag. One of my grandfathers smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes until he was ninety-five.

lol

Thank me later.


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Oh, yes!

Lucky. People are dying from passive smoking. 1 in 100 people around the world die from secondhand smoke each year, a new study reveals, and nearly two-thirds of the deaths occur in children. [link to thechart.blogs.cnn.com]

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I'd walk a mile for a lama.

Tractor Production is up comrades!

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Double Plus Good!

Cigarettes are the scapegoat for the Fukushima type nuclear meltdowns and rampant desert bomb testings.

I would walk across the desert with no shoes upon my feet, To share ... You know I'd walk a thousand miles. If I could just :-)

One child?

not soon its already a reality

Smokers are my salvation, I pay less tax. Raising cigarette taxes is one way some states are trying to make up :-)

Damn Australia. At first, I thought your PM gave a great speech, but found it it was false, and now this? I remember as a child in the 70's thinking how great Australia WAS!