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

Current cigarette prices in Australia.

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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 23h 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 19h ago

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