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A 'huge' trade-off: One Nation's pitch for cheaper cigarettes
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Yeah, it does now that you mention it. They’ve covered online, phone and home delivery. The local distributors have a few locations as drop off zones. It’s a pretty tight ship.
There’s not a thing they can do about the shop down the road taking numbers. They can search it as much as they like but they’ll find nothing but papers, filters…all of which are good.
I worked for a business with an unusually high number of smokers last year, they were all buying black market cigarettes, apparently directly from a shop up the road.
"The shop down the road taking numbers" can be used to infiltrate the supply and distribution, if the police want to. Place an order, track the delivery vehicle back to their pick up location etc
Yeah possibly. They’re pretty sharp though, the police would want to be good undercover.
But yeah one of the weaknesses is the search and seizure powers being within the health department and not coppers
The coppers are buying illegal vapes
I was tempted to include a comment about the police not having racist moustaches etc, but I'm guessing the police look and act a lot like the customers anyway.
If black market tobacco is illegal, then the police need the power to stop it, if they have not been given that power, the question should be 'why?' If they have the power and are not using it, the question should be 'why?'
I was also tempted to suggest the police are not stopping the trade because it is where they get their winnie blues from.
At this point in time I am expecting 90% of the police are likely to vote for one nation, mcdonalds, zionism, or pedophile trump.
Yeah we definitely need to be asking why it’s not the police. It is like it’s made to be abused easily.
From what I understand, they’re happy to turn up in uniform. I went and picked up a carton for one of those I live with who smokes a month or so ago (a phone pickup) and one of those in line I was talking to was a uniformed council office worker and he said he was in line with two off duty cops in their lapel and badge less blue uniform the week before. They bought a handful of vapes.
Either way it’s pumping around here, for a rural Queensland city we do not struggle at all for BM darts.
Just do a search…punch in ozvape into your search engine
Basically as expected.
So now it has to be assumed that the majority of smokers in Australia are not just dickheads, but are also criminals.
Being a dickhead is obviously far from illegal in Australia, but being a criminal...
Well I think that’s a bit harsh, giving it up isn’t easy. The two smokers I’m close to certainly aren’t dickheads and it was being frightened by losing my legs made me give up, not the money. I’d like to think I’m not a dickhead but I guess that’s subject to opinion.
At the end of the day, these laws just don’t work and we see that here in action. It’s wraparound services and support that’s what’s really needed. Only one form of quitting aid is on the PBS and that’s the full strength patch.