Jim Chalmers, the treasurer, and Mark Butler, the health minister, have previously rebuffed any suggestion that reducing the sky-high cost of cigarettes was the solution to curbing the black market trade, which has ballooned over the past five years and smashed a $17.8bn hole in the budget since 2020-21
Local excise taxes on cigarettes are not a new invention
When someone accumulated too much of an item, theyd sell it to the guys whod had their commissary privileges taken away
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"It's definitely not an everyday product because of the price point," said Shine Papers owner Dave D., who declined to provide a last name
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