This is vegetarian health guru Gillian McKeith. Age: 51 years old.
This is Nigella Lawson. English food writer, TV chef and meat eater. Age: 51 years old.
Posted on 04/23/2012 11:47:13 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
While the US has been trying to disgust smokers into giving up tobacco, New Zealand has been considering a more direct idea: raising the price of cigarettes to $100 a pack. The Ministry of Health wants a smoke-free NZ by 2025, and the $100 price tag—which would be implemented by 2020—is one of the ideas being discussed … although officials admit it is "probably unrealistic." The plan seen as the most likely would make a pack of cigarettes a still-sizable $60 by 2025, Sky News reports. But, 3 News adds, Prime Minister John Key is concerned that higher prices may simply encourage a black market.
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is it illegal to grow your own tobacco?
I can’t imagine how it could be
How big are their packs?
The commies are trying to wean everyone off of tobacco and push them over to the much cheaper marijuana. When everyone is high, nobody complains about what is going on within the government.
How can there be a black market on an isolated island?
Someone will make millions bootlegging......
Funny how they lack the guts to just make it illegal.
Brilliant idea. It will make the profit margin (and violence) from bootleg cigarettes approach that of illegal drugs. Then the government can tax these new criminals at 100% through “seizures”.
The other question is, who would spend $100 on a pack of cigarettes when the price of an equivalent amount of pot is less, even though it is illegal.
There’s a thriving illegal drug trade in Singapore, so why not?
I guess these idiots never heard of prohibition and how it turned out such lovely people like Al Capone, Joe Kennedy and other mobsters like that.
” Prime Minister John Key is concerned that higher prices may simply encourage a black market “
Gee - ya think???
Guess it’s a good thing 1) I quit smoking over 23 years ago, and 2) I don’t live in New Zealand.
I was in Toronto maybe 35 years ago. Canadians didn’t like the price of cigarettes, so they just rolled their own. Called them “twisters.” They looked like joints. It was no big deal.
With a sufficient profit potential, someone will find some way to do it.
/johnny
I wonder if they mistranslated “carton”....
This is vegetarian health guru Gillian McKeith. Age: 51 years old.
This is Nigella Lawson. English food writer, TV chef and meat eater. Age: 51 years old.
People talk about the war on drugs being a failure...
well Tobacco is a drug that can be had for cheap around the world legally...
So that will create a hell of an illegals black market in New Zealand...
Cheap easy to be made money will suck illegals cigs in to New Zealand by the boatload....
I mean really its an f---ing bunch of islands...
lots of unguarded coast line...
lot of pleasure craft...
stock up on a buttload of cig is Australia...
quick night run to New Zealand ...
turn a quick 20/30k profit...
yea this will turn out well
When they came for the smokers I didn't care, I didn't smoke.
“Prime Minister John Key is concerned that higher prices may simply encourage a black market.”
Captain Odvious = John Key?
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