Illicit tobacco is 'out in the open' but what is the best way to deal with it?

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• DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Medical support for quitting smoking should be free. At a guess, that’s the cheapest option too.

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• Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Stop crazy taxing, let the prices return to normal.

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  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stop being beta cuck cunt and quit sucking on a big tobacco’s dirty deadly dick

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  • MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah. Until vaping took off, smoking rates plummeted.

    Smells a lot better in this country compared to the ones they smoke in.

    Ugh. (I do empathise with people who’ve picked up the habit, but not those who advocate for it)

    Say what you will, the taxes worked, and have without a doubt saved us a tonne in avoided medical costs from all the people who gave up or never started smoking in the first place.

    People talk as if a black market existing somehow negates the benefits of smoking reductions.

    If it’s black market, it’s still more of a hassle to buy. Unless it’s really out of control. In which case the answer is blaringly obvious.

    Law enforcement.

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    • MoreZombies@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It really of out of control - the shops are obvious and if one closes down a new one inevitably seems to open (sometimes at the exact same location).

      If there’s a crackdown, it probably needs to be at the import level as well - these guys are getting so much loose tobacco and cigarettes into the country it is surprising to me. I am not versed in that area, so I don’t know how easy it is to enforce such a crackdown, but it seems like shutting down (and charging shopowners?) isn’t enough to stop the trade.

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    • Tau@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If it’s black market, it’s still more of a hassle to buy.

      Out of the three smokers I regularly work with two of them have found shops that sell black market tailormades and the other buys pouches off some internet site which is almost certainly also dodging tax. It doesn’t seem like they’re having any hassles finding and buying these things and with black market apparently being about half the price of cheap legit cigarettes you’d have to be pretty firm on your principles to take the financial hit.

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