While e-cigarettes are subject to 20 percent VAT, just as in the case of normal tobacco, the devices are not subjected to the tobacco consumption tax, which represents 64.7 percent of the cost of a packet of cigarettes
"We have some 2.5 million Australians who continue to smoke and we lose about 15,000 people a year from smoking-related diseases," she said
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