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    Australia's wild plan to eliminate smoking

    This is how politicians actually think, in a country like Australia.

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...7aba1fef95724f

    Smokers could be made to buy cigarettes with a prescription or at a pharmacy, in an ambitious new plan to wipe out smoking in Australia almost entirely. And here we have yet another example of the government control and social engineering practiced in Australia.

    Currently, Australians are paying the equivalent of $25 USD per pack, due to the intentionally high taxes designed to discourage smoking.
    Clearly the Australian government uses taxes as a means of social engineering
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    Another plan in the works calls for raising the taxes so high that Australians would have had to pay AU$ 48.50 per back of cigarettes, equivalent to $34.50 US dollars.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...pack-year.html


    Since the Australian government heavily subsidizes its healthcare system, the Australian mentality is that government has the right to force people to be healthy, because if they don't it will end up costing the government.
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    Yup.

    Legalize pot but criminalize tobacco.

    And no, pot is not better for the lungs. It's better, though, for Leftist politicians - who do best when the electorate is confused and scrambled and unable to think clearly.

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    Since the Australian government heavily subsidizes its healthcare system, the Australian mentality is that government has the right to force people to be healthy, because if they don't it will end up costing the government.

    where does the government get its money?

    moreover, say this moronic effort is successful, what's the next group to be marginalized, vilified, extorted and eventually extinguished?

    it won't end with smokers.
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    Marxism marches on and eventually wins. This is what happens when guns are outlawed the government really goes crazy.

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    Hmmm....nicotine addiction is one of the strongest, third to cocaine and heroin?

    And the fascists running that island continent want to turn tobacco into a controlled substance...?

    I can't imagine what can go wrong with this plan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lone Gunman View Post
    Since the Australian government heavily subsidizes its healthcare system, the Australian mentality is that government has the right to force people to be healthy, because if they don't it will end up costing the government.

    where does the government get its money?

    moreover, say this moronic effort is successful, what's the next group to be marginalized, vilified, extorted and eventually extinguished?

    it won't end with smokers.
    @Northern Rivers will have to send us some video when he graduates from Goose-Step School.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sled Dog View Post
    Hmmm....nicotine addiction is one of the strongest, third to cocaine and heroin?

    And the fascists running that island continent want to turn tobacco into a controlled substance...?

    I can't imagine what can go wrong with this plan.

    It's going to be hilarious to watch when the quadruple vaxxers start pissing on the double and triple vaxxers...

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    The Asians that control the black market are licking their lips.

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    I can imagine some enterprising American turning their 45 foot ketch into tobacco boards and smuggling it into Perth, like Cheech and Chong turned a van into weed to get it across the border....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sled Dog View Post
    @Northern Rivers will have to send us some video when he graduates from Goose-Step School.
    Why? I don't smoke. I'm watching my sister-in-law lose her battle with smoking-related lung disease...and...it just killed Eddie VanHalen. And, yet...idiots still think they're the one that will live to be 100.

    Eh. Not my circus, not my monkeys....

    Goose-Step School? So long as it ain't ducks, I'm okay with it.


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