In Australia, where tobacco production is illegal, the soaring prices of cigarettes is encouraging some criminals to start growing the crop on a commercial scale.Read More
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There seems to be growing concern even outside tobacco-industry circles about the negative effects that cigarette tax hikes have on many vulnerable smokers. Read More
The Royal Australian Navy has been found by a tribunal to have contributed significantly to a young sailor’s having taken up tobacco smoking, which is said to have led to his death.Read More
There seems to be a growing realization that taxing financially-poor smokers to fill the holes in governments’ budgets is less than fair – is majoritarianism at its worst.Read More
A cigarette soft pack that was included inside a ‘plain pack’ will not be the subject of punitive action in Australia. In fact, the soft pack, in metallic silver, was plainer than the ‘plain pack’.Read More
A ban on nicotine-containing electronic cigarettes in Australia has been described as 'unethical', 'unscientific', ‘political’, ‘emotional’ and ‘ideological’. But there’s still time to reverse it.Read More
It is often said that cigarette taxes are raised to ‘encourage’ smokers to quit, but people aren’t encouraged with sticks. Encouragement comes in the form of alternative products.Read More
A story in Australia has told of the shock expressed at the treatment of mice still being used in cigarette-smoke experiments, but such experiments are now being used for vapor products too.Read More
A tobacco-smoking ban in prisons in the Australian state of New South Wales seems not to have eliminated smoking, but it has raised the price of tobacco products enormously. Read More
In Australia, as in many other countries, smokers are being left to burn while the authorities fiddle with the definitions of alternative products, and smoking and vaping.Read More