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from the from-the-land-where-everything-wants-to-kill-you dept.
Many countries have successfully used tax policies to regulate the price of cigarette products. In Australia, a pack of cigarattes can cost up to $18, making it the most expensive country to buy cigarettes.
A report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) in 2016, found that the smoking rate in the country was at an all time low. In the last 20 years, smoking had decreased by almost 50 percent.
The study showed that less than 13 percent of Australians are daily smokers and fewer people are starting to smoke.
The report cites Australia as having one of the lowest smoking rates in the world, contributed in part by their implementation of increased taxes on tobacco products, plain packaging, and more restrictive smoke free environment laws.
Have the pictures of diseased lungs Australia puts on packs of cigarettes helped?
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday June 01 2017, @04:53PM
Smokers do set lots of things on fire, whether its their home or the field by the road... Hurting less people than driving alcoholics, but still hurting quite a few every year.
And those butts do take 5-10 years to degrade once thrown nonchalantly on the road (according to Philip Morris).
I like that need to fetch something worse to try to diminish the obvious negative, though. As if you had to either smoke or be a drunkard, or be the boringest person in existence.
I choose sex addiction, because that gives you the best visibility over the extent of your hurting people, even when you throw away your career and get arrested for DUI