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In Australia too - most people I know just buy undeclared cigarettes. Almost all international students that travel into the country bring a bunch of cartons wi
by stevenjohns 7y ago
In Australia too - most people I know just buy undeclared cigarettes. Almost all international students that travel into the country bring a bunch of cartons with them and sell them at $10-$15/packet. It's a way for the international students to make a bit more money given how fucked over they are by the lack of working rights they have, coupled with the ridiculously high cost of living and expensive education costs.
All the price raising on tobacco has done is push revenue into the black market, invent crimes from nothing and turn otherwise honest people into criminals.
- rbg246 7y agoIncreasing prices has (surprisingly, give it's price inelasticity) worked in decreasing smoking rates. Here is the evidence of the public health meaures: https://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/tobacco-control-toc~smoking-rates https://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.n...
- stevenjohns 7y agoI'm not a data scientist, but that downwards slope started twenty years before the 2010 tobacco excise and continuing to fall is a culmination of years upon years of education.
- rbg246 7y agoAbsolutely, there are many reasons for decreasing smoking rates, it's a combination of strategies that have seen the decrease but one of those is increasing the price.