Think I could live with black market alcohol too. 🙏

Not a smoker but go to the pub and everyone is smoking chop chop.

The Australian government defines excise duty (excise tax) as a tax on certain goods produced or manufactured in Australia. What it applies to - Excisable goods: alcohol (except wine), fuel/petroleum, and tobacco. Where it applies - Only on goods manufactured or produced in Australia (not imports). Tobacco is illegal for commercial production in Australia, 100% of it is imported... read that definition again. 80-90% of our petrol is imported....read that definition again.

The horse has bolted on that one,

$1 a pack of 20 in Vietnam

The cheap smoke shops are doing a community service 👌😎 🚬

Well what would you pay for tobacco 25g depending on the brand is $100 upwards. 100g is $35 bm Why wouldn't you buy cheaper

$2 for a legal cigarette, 70 cents for an illegal cigarette. Make legal cigarettes 80 cents and the government gets its tax.

We could grow our own tobacco, make and process it here. Get rid of the excise tax. Create jobs, collect company tax, payg tax and gst. Make it affordable and collect the tax here vs it all going to the black market

Same with alcohol. Cut the huge taxes and let pubs thrive again

Soon we will have backyard fuel distillers

Not many smokers are going to quit, the price of illegal tobacco is just so low compared to the taxed tobacco. The high taxes on tobacco is out of control.

We should be able to grow our own, we are not Children, that need to be told what they can and cannot do.

It’s always intrigued me why cigarettes are considered the most vile legal product when alcohol isn’t. It would be a rare person who crashed their car, started fighting, abused their family etc because they smoked. These issues are commonly perpetrated by people who can’t control their alcohol intake. Just wanted to make the point. I’m sure there are many who will disagree.

Cut the excise tax on tabacco and watch that number fall and sales increase with legal purchase. We pay more than we should.

People find ways to survive when the government make it impossible to do so under their system. The blackmarket will continue to grow in other areas now people have been taught how to access it, especially in these tough times. It is the perfect storm.

I gave up smoking August 31 2025. It wasn't due to the price. I'd been buying blackmarket tobacco for years. $8 for a pack of 20's. Criminals were doing it right, government was doing it wrong. Nah, I simply went cold Turkey for my own health. Plenty of others are still hooked and buying the blackmarket gear. Every day I watch them running around town delivering cigarettes now that the state government has closed the shop fronts. The legislation hasn't stopped anything, just modified the method of shopping and supply...

Tobacco is so cheap these days. I am 72 years old and started smoking in 1969. I retired my pipe a few years ago and took up vaping. However with the government banning vapes, I went back to the pipe. I was pleasantly surprised at how cheap tobacco has become.

The law of diminishing returns at work…

It's soooo good My elderly neighbour loves her 500grams of chop each month for $100. I love helping out the battlers even if smoking is their choice they deserve to have it cheap FK you Anthony Albanese 🤣🖕🖕

Even if they were the same price I'd still buy black market, why? Cos I don't need pictures of organs or dead people, or health warnings all over my cigarettes, the government needs to stop treating adults as children

If the modelling didn't show them this classic and predictable socio-economic result. Well ...

Just so you know. Nicotine is a highly useful pesticide that also works on parasites. Parasites in humans we know is the cause of much disease which nicotine can destroy and the actual reason all Western nations are in "lockstep" trying to ban it.

Who’d want to buy taxed cigarettes at any taxable rate,not me,the government ain’t spending it all that well that ld like to give them extra.

Not sure what was expected when they hiked the price of cigarettes to luxury level.

The Woke are being taken too lightly. Bring on the robots

I don't know anyone who uses those terms.

Make it make sense 🤡

So, does that mean you're pro choice Senator Malcolm Roberts?

NPCs need to realise DNA can't change, but of course they can't resist the programming.

It is strange that you have to imagine things that never happened, and to be offended by your own imagination.

The only person I've heard use those terms is you.

Imagine nobody gives a shit what you say Mr 7+7= bicycle

Another unpalatable word salad from Malcom

Pretty much! Insanity! 🙄

Focusing on the big issues 🙄

Men should be comfortable to wear dresses if they want.

Imagine calling yourself a man when you’re like 6 inches tall. 🤡

Imagine demanding empirical evidence whilst denying actual acience

Thank you for re enforcing why I don’t vote for One Nation 👍🏾

The world’s gone mad!!

I’m cis because I am. Men with or without dresses doesn’t change that.

It is said that when people work with the mentally ill....they themselves eventually become mentally unbalanced ! This appears to be what is happening throughout the world now !

Cis is only a bad thing if you see being trans as bad. It's literally just a qualifier lifted from chemistry (same/opposite side of). Chest feeding and birthing person are specifically only used as the need arises. 99% of people will be getting the stock standard breastfeeding and mother terminology. Stop making up things to get offended about and start putting forward tangible policy that addresses actual day to day life like cost of living and the housing crisis.

Imagine calling yourself a politician caring for everyday Australians.... thank you Mal the leprechaun for sharing

Total nutters!

Winny Rocco if we had robots , what makes you think we would keep one nation supporters. It wouldn't be them creating the robots

Same same.

The world's gone some- what crazy.

I know who the insane one is!