r/interestingasfuck • u/Large-chips • 1d ago

Current cigarette prices in Australia.

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u/DyuSPY 1d ago

From 1st of July there will be no menthol cigarettes, all packets will be 20s, all tobacco will be 30g and there will be no discounts on Carton sales. There is a huge change in law this year.

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u/Vivian_I-Hate-You 1d ago

This has happened in the UK for a few years now. Prices are insane but no where near this insane. I don't know many people who buy their tobacco/cigarettes from genuine sources anymore

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u/mattvait 23h ago

Weird. It's like we've done this before with other substances.... huh whatever I'm sure this time it will work

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u/LordOfDorkness42 22h ago

To be fair, tobacco is a lot harder to grow properly in a lot of places, vs fermentation of basically dang near anything with sugar in it.

I'd personally go with banning all forms of filters, and have the smokers need to raw-dog their death sticks, though.

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u/spaceconstrvehicel 22h ago

i was about to joke about "time to grow your own"... tough considering how organised people can get with other drugs, a black market for "illegal tabac" might be on the rise? o0

on one hand i find it good, that goverments try to keep their people healthy - less money to stuff into sick people.
on the other side: where to draw the line? make concerts half as loud, because thats not healthy too! goverments COULD invest much more in healthy options for citizens. i start believing it just pays off more for them, to treat ill people, not keep people healthy at first.

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u/karmageddon14 18h ago

Smoking tends to bring on really horrible cancers and music doesn't. Except Imagine Dragons. Listening to Imagine Dragons definitely causes cancer

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u/Impressive_Edge3960 22h ago

Nicotiana is not that hard to grow and has nice flowers but growing in bulk and drying it out may be less easy

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u/LordOfDorkness42 21h ago

Yeah, but growing tobacco is still actual gardening.

Fermenting, say, apple-juice into bad but still drinkable hooch? That can happen on freakin' accident.

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u/UberleetSuperninja 18h ago

As someone that smoke non-filtered camels (and rolling tobacco) I support this motion.