What have C02 and passive smoking have in common?
Nick Mitchen thinks they are not a problem.

The IPA produces opinion pieces supportive of certain corporate sectors, usually which donate funds to the IPA. Could the same be going on with tobacco and this piece?

I just bought my first packet of cigs since the tax increase.
RUDD YOU ARE A DOG!
First you hand billions to big business and the wealthiest among us and now you slug the poorest to help pay it back.
Every week between now and the election I will be reminded of your perfidy and callous greed and your cynical manipulation and dishonest motives over this "great big new tax" on those who can least afford it. You dont give a toss about health or people quitting you just wanted a nice big distraction from your numerous failings and a big wad of cash from poor people.
Not happy crudd.

Should our Kevin get any more "socially moralistic", we will have to attach a picture of ourselves outside a church, with our annual tax returns.

Hey Mikk, why don't you and the other smokers really annoy Rudd then and just give up smoking?
Then you won't need to pay him any new tax!

And we, the non-smoking taxpayers, won't need to pay for all the added stress on the health system that your lot add.
They also have far more 'breaks' from work duties than non-smokers!

Now don't start on all the alcohol or fat related diseases that also stress the tax system.
We have to start to draw the line somewhere, and I agree that smoking should be first off the rank!
Give it up!

Suzeonline

What we lose in health costs we'll save on pension payments.

The cigarette industry is lucky that there product has not been banned completely .If their product was like a children toy or a pharmaceutical drug that killed people it would be banned completely .
The cigarette industry has not a leg to stand on .
The government has a legal right to do what is right for people's health and the cigarette industry through their product that kills over 15,000 people a year should think themselves lucky that a full ban has not taken place .
I would like to see all cigerettes being restrict to chemist shops where the pharmacist could give stop smoking advice and all cigarettes to be banned to any new starter
All current smokers should be registered so no new smoker can start the deadly habbit .

Well what can I say but see too a product that has no future for all. ( tax the sh@t out of it)"Now" before you kill it, make some money off the sucker,s.( chop,chop will and black-market will slide for the old school. Lets face it on a fundamental level, It stinks, I mean the smell of it. Its drug dealing by law. So, since its the most useless produce by all common-sence, All the above has merit in what you have said.

Bold Question. Can I ( if over the age of 25 ) have a packet of Marijuana milds 25,s. lol. and I don't condone drugs in any-way.

Hasbeen! Will this help your beer? lol.

This post was just a joke, well some of it. Smile.

TTM