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approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling

Source: yeeyi.com
[Social News]     21 Jan 2020
The price of Australian cigarettes will rise another 12.5 per cent this year, with the average price per pack approaching A $50, experts said. "50/Back! Australia will become one of the most expensive countries in the world for cigarettes starting in September, Australian media reported. A pack of 25 Marlboro Golds (Platinum Marlboro) will cost A $48.50!

The price of Australian cigarettes will rise another 12.5 per cent this year, with the average price per pack approaching A $50, experts said.

approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling


"50/Back! Australia will be the highest-priced "

Australia will become one of the world`s most expensive cigarette countries from September, according to Australian media.

A pack of 25 Marlboro Golds (Platinum Marlboro) will cost A $48.50!

approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling

The cheapest also costs around $29 a pack.

This is the eighth consecutive year of price increases for cigarettes and is one of the strategies that government has tried to reduce tobacco use.

But experts say soaring prices only punish addicts and further stimulate the black market.

The federal government`s tobacco consumption tax has risen 12.5 percent a year since 2013 and 25 percent in 2010.

approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling

For smokers who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, they spend more than A $10,000 a year on tobacco.

And manual cigarettes, also cannot avoid tax.

approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling


"Tax increases have limited effect on smoking rate"

The World Health Organization (WHO) found that "price increases" are "the only most effective way to encourage tobacco users to give up smoking and prevent children from starting to smoke ".

But Dr Colin Mendelsohn, of the School of Public Health at the University of New South Wales, has previously said that tax increases now have less impact on smoking rates than before.

approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling

The number of adults who smoke every day in recent years has been stagnant:

A decrease of only 0.7 per cent between 2014/15 and 2017-18,

But between 1995 and 2017-18 this fell from 23.8% to 13.8%!

approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling

Mendelsohn said," We`ve traditionally known that tax increases reduce smoking, but once the tax rate is fairly high, addicts say,`I don`t have a choice, I have to smoke anyway`."

"The tax increase would have no effect, just punishing addicted smokers who couldn`t quit and stimulating the black market. "


"Increase in tobacco smuggling cases"

The number of tobacco sold on the black market increased last year.

Police reportedly seized more than 300 tons of smuggled tobacco.

approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling

Rod O`Donnell, commander of the Western Australia Border Enforcement Agency, said illegal trade was hugely profitable.

approaching 50 aud/pack! Eight consecutive years of sharp rise, Australia will become the highest tobacco prices! Experts: Promoting black market smuggling

While acknowledging that the increase in high taxes on cigarettes has contributed significantly to the expansion of smuggling, he supports high taxes.

When Prime Minister Morrison was Treasury secretary in 2016, he personally announced the conventional tax policy. In submitting his 2016-17 budget, Mr Morrison said the increase in tobacco tax would bring $4.7 billion in revenue to government over four years.

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