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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: 2) by isostatic on Friday June 02 2017, @12:55AM (1 child)
I used the last year that obamacare was guarenteed not to be in. Nothing about the quality or not of the great statesman George Bush II
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @06:44AM
OK, so your point is ... what?
That the US government has a long history of enabling rent-seeking behaviour on the part of the medical industry?
We knew that. It's been complained about for several decades to my certain knowledge.
Listen, tell you what. I'll make you a deal. You find a way to get Mistress Helga to come over here with her riding crop and spank Congress into rescinding all those sweetheart deals, and I'll chip in a few bucks to pay her. Until then, the problem reduces to: find a way to stop Congress being corrupt.
We all want to find that.