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After pulling my head out of my medical books for the week...

Post by Arya » 29 Dec 2019, 03:52

I heard you have to be 21 to buy tobacco in the states now.


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Re: After pulling my head out of my medical books for the week...

Post by Citizen » 29 Dec 2019, 03:57

Yer.

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Post by Arya » 29 Dec 2019, 04:00

interesting. smokers can now like 3 years longer if you wait til you're 21 to start.
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Post by Citizen » 29 Dec 2019, 04:12

Three years less flavor.

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Post by Master of Vvardenfel » 29 Dec 2019, 05:05

Just gotta do what they've done in Australia of you wanna curb smoking. Tax the everliving shit out of it. Pack of darts in Australia is almost $30 now.
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Post by Arya » 05 Jan 2020, 17:17

Like around the 27th
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Post by lolin » 05 Jan 2020, 17:23

Master of Vvardenfel wrote:Just gotta do what they've done in Australia of you wanna curb smoking. Tax the everliving shit out of it. Pack of darts in Australia is almost $30 now.

That's what we have been. I think Bush put a new tax on tobacco products and then I know Obama did (as well?)
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Re: After pulling my head out of my medical books for the week...

Post by Master of Vvardenfel » 05 Jan 2020, 21:52

You can still get a packet of cigarettes here for like 5 bucks.

That's barely a deterrent, that's how much soda costs in Australia.

It's not as big of an issue in the US because of how the healthcare system works here.

In Australia it was important to get people to quit smoking because it drove up the cost of health care, which is subsidized by the government. So losing tax money on tobacco by excessively driving up the cost wasn't a huge issue because they were saving that tax money on lower health care costs.
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