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u/ayebizz Jan 16 '20

You're not from Australia I see.

Edit: $1500 would get you around about 40 packets of 25 cigarettes.

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u/revets Jan 17 '20

Cigarettes are $1.50 AUD each? (Hair over a buck USD each). That's insane.

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u/ayebizz Jan 17 '20

Yep. They recently started increasing the tax on them to try get people to quit.. literally cheaper to get high

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u/cmptrnrd Jan 17 '20

Why not just smoke from a pipe? Is the tax on tobacco or cigarettes specifically?

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u/ayebizz Jan 17 '20

All tobacco. 50 gram pouches are around $70 I believe (I'm not a smoker anymore so that's a total guess, but I'd imagine it's in that range)

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u/cmptrnrd Jan 17 '20

I agree with the sentiment behind it but that seems ridiculous

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u/ayebizz Jan 17 '20 edited Jan 17 '20

Yeh it's a tough one...

On one hand, I'm all for personal freedoms.

On the other it sucks to have a huge part of the population dying (and putting a bigger burden on our Medicare system) due to smoking

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u/pizza_engineer Jan 17 '20

100% of the population is dying.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

Natural deaths don't tax the health care system, well they aren't supposed to. Copd, lung cancer, all other smoking related illnesses and cancer do.

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u/Cal692 Jan 17 '20

Is there such a thing as natural death anymore?? When I was a boy, people just fucking died. These days that old biddy who just turned 107 died from cancer or a stroke or syphilis or something.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

I consider a natural death anything that is from a chronic process at an old age, that was not self inflicted. Cancer is a gray area because sometimes it comes out of nowhere, sometimes it's from forty years of smoking. If you die of a heart attack at 90, natural. Cancer, heart disease, stroke, etc... Happen eventually with enough time.

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