They really are bereft of ideas, aren't they.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
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That's what the tobacco industry is for!
this sounds awfully familiar
cheap durries if you vote for us
It won't make them cheaper. The legit darts would be priced above the current cost of bootleg durries. The price would be low enough to not be worth pedaling dodgy fags.
End result: higher price.
My point was just that the noalition are now stealing one nation 'policy'
Australians really need to think about what that says about us... a country where something like smoking can be used as political enticement in 2026
Now apply this to actual fun drugs.
MDMA
LSD
Mushrooms
Cannabis
Ketamine
GHB
etc
How would this hurt them at all? They will just do other things instead
What would hurt them is if enforcement increased
Looking after everyone’s health.
If you have nothing offer cheap tricks…
However, the Coalition points to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures that show tobacco consumption increased by roughly 30 per cent between 2022 and 2025.
This is ofc a lie, as any words that spill from the dysgenic swill holes these freaks speak from often are. The ABS is speaking of nicotine consumption, including vapes, etc, not what the reader probably thinks when they hear "tobacco". I hope this Jake Revell guy is quoting them directly and not peddling this himself.
While sales of illegal cigarettes and nicotine products have declined dramatically, wastewater analysis shows that overall nicotine consumption is surging.
Pretty sure this is a spelling mistake and they meant legal cigarettes, because it makes no sense. It's also misleading, if my understanding is correct the waste water tests showed total cigarette use is down, but by cross referencing the sales of legal cigarettes with this data it showed illegal use was up. Also I think this is conflating cigarettes and other nicotine products when it says "surging"... but it says nicotine products have declined... Which isn't true? Idk this sentence is a mess.
They’re reacting to Hanson.
Someone in this household just got on the federal program. It’s pretty cheap.
The e-cigarettes and pods last a long time. I have to raise the question why these (and the standards they manufacture under) weren’t just moved to tobacconists etc as replacement for disposable vapes and kept the doctors and pharmacists out if it entirely.
It’s that middle ground, that meeting in the middle somewhere, that the policy removed and agitated the black market we had. I look at these things, their price and the reaction of the said smoker to them and I really think we missed the boat here. I can’t see that cigarette smoker going back.
I feel that if done better, we might have had a better outcome. However we might feel personally about the policy, we can see by how Hanson has played it that it’s a weak spot. Of course, Labor can’t manoeuvre can they, because they need to have a caucus chat about what they’ll decide where Hanson will just say shit people want to hear.
Anyway, I can certainly recommend the product of the government program.