Australia's wild plan to eliminate smoking

[kazenatsu]

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.

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.

[JustPassinThru]

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.

[Lone Gunman]

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.

[Sled Dog]

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.

[Northern Rivers]

@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.

[Sled Dog]

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.

You better start caring.

Once they get that aspect of private life strongly under public control, the Karens Down Under will be seeking another project to control.

Might be your music.

[Quark]

You better start caring.

Once they get that aspect of private life strongly under public control, the Karens Down Under will be seeking another project to control.

Might be your music.

You've got that right.

[Northern Rivers]

You better start caring.

Once they get that aspect of private life strongly under public control, the Karens Down Under will be seeking another project to control.

Might be your music.

Perhaps. "All this" seems to be the problem of the gentrified city folk...of it is a problem. Most are glad to see the end of tobacco...including, me.

[Quark]

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.

I don't smoke either but I look at the big picture and look at how freedom and liberty is eroding and fast and how Marxism (totalitarian) and Fascism (authoritarian) government states are gaining strength throughout the world. What will they outlaw tomorrow.

[JustPassinThru]

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.

The emerging term is, "Medical Tyranny."

This is only a start.