Smoking rates increasing in Australia, despite plain packaging and hyper-taxation

From an APP member Recent figures revealed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, are showing that despite all of the efforts by successive Australian governments (whether Coalition or Labor) to reduce the rates of smoking in Australia, the ...
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Labor’s tax assault on smokers is more battery of the persecuted

From an APP member Should it win government at the next federal election, the Labor Party is planning to increase tobacco excise by 12.5% a year for four years to 2020. This means that smokers, statistically already disproportionately on lower ...
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