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NZ tried that cigarette ban, but walked it back so they could get juicy tax revenues. https://lite.cnn.com/2023/11/28/asia/new-zealand-smoking-ban-reversal-intl
by toast0 7mo ago
NZ tried that cigarette ban, but walked it back so they could get juicy tax revenues. https://lite.cnn.com/2023/11/28/asia/new-zealand-smoking-ban-reversal-intl-hnk https://lite.cnn.com/2023/11/28/asia/new-zealand-smoking-ban...
Maybe split the difference and raise the purchasing age for cigarettes 6 months every year. Takes longer to get to nobody can smoke, but you'll get there eventually.
- awesome_dude 7mo agoThe (NZ) government that changed the approach is heavily loaded with Tobacco friendly Ministers - the expectation is that when the government is voted out (no government lasts forever) the age based approach will be bought back in.
- InvertedRhodium 7mo agoWe’d just end up in the same situation as Australia - where up to one third of all cigarettes consumed are purchased on the black market.
- maerF0x0 7mo agoif this source is to be trusted it's now half https://wrdnews.org/illicit-tobacco-in-australia-half-of-all-cigarettes-now-black-market/ https://wrdnews.org/illicit-tobacco-in-australia-half-of-all... (I did not vet anything, I just googled your words because I wanted to know more)
- grebc 7mo agoIt’s likely a lot more than half.
- bluGill 7mo agoSmoking is out of favor and has been for years. Every year that goes by there are less smokers. Eventually there will be so few that the tax revenues don't matter anymore. I can't guess when that is coming though.
- ikr678 7mo agoIt was, but vape use has taken over, and once the nicotine addiction is in place people are open to smoking again. Also, they tried taxing cigarettes to the moon in Australia and created a multi billion dollar black market for them instead.