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Set a date to ban cigarette sales in Australia, urge public health researchers
WION ^ | 11/15/2021 | Staff

Posted on 11/15/2021 3:14:26 PM PST by simpson96

The battle for putting an end to the sale of cigarettes in Australia has been ensuing for a long time.

In the latest development, leading public health researchers have said that the governments must set a date for banning the sale of cigarettes through retailers, including supermarkets.

They also said that it is time to find new ways of boosting revenue without relying on tobacco excise taxes.

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The piece said that there is an urgent need for “ending the regulatory exceptionalism that has maintained the legal status of tobacco products as a consumer good.”

“Cigarettes do not meet modern consumer product safety standards,” Gartner and her colleagues said.

(Excerpt) Read more at wionews.com ...


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1 posted on 11/15/2021 3:14:26 PM PST by simpson96
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LMAO! Even Hitler didn’t go that far!


2 posted on 11/15/2021 3:16:09 PM PST by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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To: simpson96
Hey,Aussies...just FYI,this as been tried.It was tried,nationwide,in the good old US of A.It was called prohibition.

In the end it did more harm than good.

3 posted on 11/15/2021 3:19:42 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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...“Cigarettes do not meet modern consumer product safety standards,”...

But the Covid clot shots do. Yup.

4 posted on 11/15/2021 3:19:42 PM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: Dogbert41

Once a penal colony....


5 posted on 11/15/2021 3:22:05 PM PST by dblshot
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“ Once a penal colony....”

Always a penal colony


6 posted on 11/15/2021 3:24:23 PM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: simpson96

Go for their beer....I dare ya.


7 posted on 11/15/2021 3:24:25 PM PST by V_TWIN
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To: simpson96

‘The Shade’ was right; the only thing worse than people who are trying to conquer the world is people who are trying to save it.


8 posted on 11/15/2021 3:27:54 PM PST by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: simpson96

They forget something that operated very well in the USSR called The Black Market.


9 posted on 11/15/2021 3:30:25 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: simpson96

I don’t smoke. I think it’s disgusting. However, this is a terrible idea. As another poster pointed out, it will create the same circumstances as Prohibition in the US. The way to stop people smoking is generational. Go for the kids and write off the adults. My friends who smoke get poked at by their children all the time and their kids do not smoke.

On the other hand, this and the Covid craziness are a great opportunity for a conservative government to take control and stop the madness. From what I’ve read, though, I’m not sure there are any of what we’d call conservatives in either Australia or New Zealand. Just hearing them talk about the nuclear sub deal is nauseating. “We’ll have nuclear submarines, but don’t worry, we’ll NEVER have nuclear weapons.” If I was in any other country I’d be clamoring for nukes because every four or eight years America goes crazy with a Carter, a Clinton, an Obama or, Godhelpusall, A Biden.


10 posted on 11/15/2021 3:31:45 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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but pot’s OK...


11 posted on 11/15/2021 3:32:15 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: simpson96

One brand new Unenforceable Law coming up!
Will that include Vapes?


12 posted on 11/15/2021 3:35:28 PM PST by lee martell
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To: simpson96

It will give their muslims another form of contraband to traffic.


13 posted on 11/15/2021 3:38:57 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Very simple. Declare a "Public Health Emergency" and the government can do anything it wants.

(I believe they already have a precedent.)

14 posted on 11/15/2021 3:39:35 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: simpson96

I’ll take “Stuff even the Nazis didn’t do” for $300 Alex.


15 posted on 11/15/2021 3:41:58 PM PST by SpaceBar
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The key is determining how much revenue the gov can lose vs. finding another source to tax.

So, what hasn’t been taxed that could be? Kangaroo hops? Koala smiles? Poisonous Kambo frog mucus? Where can taxes be increased?

It is rather surprising for a gov to try to wipe out a significant source of revenue. But, hey, it is a progressive plan — that looks great on paper.


16 posted on 11/15/2021 3:46:15 PM PST by TomGuy (!)
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So they are making tobacco illegal just as they are expanding legal cannabis use?


17 posted on 11/15/2021 3:47:39 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: simpson96

What is it about the English Speaking world?


18 posted on 11/15/2021 3:50:47 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: simpson96

A coworker used to be a prison guard and he said the last thing they would do was take away smoking because prisoners would go nuts. That was a long time ago.


19 posted on 11/15/2021 3:51:01 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: simpson96

Dictators Gotta Dictate


20 posted on 11/15/2021 3:53:52 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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