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A 'huge' trade-off: One Nation's pitch for cheaper cigarettes
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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The horse has well and truly bolted in this case. To get people back to buying legal cigarettes again they're going to have to both lower the price and find a way to crack down hard on the illegal market. It takes a pretty principled person to decide to pay two or three times the price to get legal cigarettes when you can walk down the road and every man and his dog will apparently sell you cheap illegal ones.
I can only imagine how bad chinese cigarettes are for you, if they are willing to put melamine in baby formula.
If people cared about their health they probably wouldn't be smoking anyway. The packaging is basically screaming THIS SHIT WILL KILL YOU and people still buy them.
It's addictive though eh
I quit 18 years ago, the increasing price was what snapped me out it. Walking into a bottleshop has a similar effect these days $$$
Fair point, might want to avoid usa cigarettes too then...