Bungers to go up 25% - Rudd strikes again

[Reedy]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... 885725.htm

So all the poor bastards get stung another 25% after midnight. I dont smoke but it's pretty harsh.

Fucking Rudd again. He's on a roll with gas prices increasing, electricity pricing increasing and motor registrations increasing.
Blow the budget surplus from the previous govt then tax the fuck out of everything.

USELESS!!

Bring back Johnny Howard!

[Gosling1]

It's not enough of a rise - they should be $40 a packet, that would force more people off them, free up hospital beds and reduce the millions of taxpayer dollars spent on preventable diseases.

All those other price increases are State govt increases, not Federal. Blame Christine Kenneally.....but I would still do her.

[Chitchats]

You and me both Gosling, Smokes costing too much? Quit. Simple soloution really.

[Reedy]

yeah i was ranting on.

Still I hate Kevin Rudd

[P4nza]

Tell Rudd to go get f**ked

the jizz guzzling bastard

[IsleofNinja]

It's not enough of a rise - they should be $40 a packet, that would force more people off them, free up hospital beds and reduce the millions of taxpayer dollars spent on preventable diseases.

All those other price increases are State govt increases, not Federal. Blame Christine Kenneally.....but I would still do her.

Ok so I'm a smoker who's being trying to give up for a while now just seem to lack the hardness of phallus to follow through for more than a few days !?

Anyhoo --- to me (as a smoker) I now have a choise to make don't I ?? Simple as that ... I either smoke and get poor/crook , or don't!?

What does worry me is what happens with the billions of dollars of increased revenue as a result ??? Can Krudd be trusted to manage the slush fund responsibly??? Pfft!!!

[Damon Z1000]

Will probably go int paying back some of that Stimulus debt!

[Nelso]

He can create more stimulus debt by giving me more of my tax dollars back and tax cigarettes even more I say. I take your $40 a pack Gos and raise it to $50 a pack, na fuck it, lets charge 'em $100 a pack.

It's usually the poorest areas with the least intelligent people living there that have the highest smoking rates though and they won't possibly be able to give up the filthy habit so will winge and complain that they are hard done by by the big mean government for making their lives so much harder.

[Wattie]

Keep smoking smokers!!!!

Because if you stop, Ol mte Kev will need to find some other way to pay back the debt.

most probably tax alcohol again, which wouldn't really bother my anyway.

or at worst bump up the old GST that was never supposed to be raised.

[mick_dundee]

or at worst bump up the old GST that was never supposed to be raised.

It was never supposed to be fucking implemented much less raised!! As for smokes, I gave them up ages ago but I wonder honestly at the cost of smokers to the health system vs the amount of tax dollars raised from the habit, no doubt both are extensive but which outweighs the other?

Really really hard to quantify the full cost of smoking I suspect, to do it properly you would have to take into account the environmental damage done by smoking, matches lighting up smokes, the cost of cleaning up after smokers and then once you have those figures then do the health and social costs, any bean counters up for the challenge?

[seiko1]

More addictive than Heroin!!!!
Rudd can get well and truly fucked.
We have been subsidising the rest of the country for years as over 90% the cost of a packet is taxes.
If I end up in a Hospital I will have well and fucken truly covered the expense already
A pack a day for thirty years and the cocksuckers openly endorsed it when I started smoking.
Now I'm hopelessly addicted they want to descriminate against me.......Lost my vote you arseholes
The Vic Gov wants the extra money put into a fund to help smokers, the Obese and Alcoholics...
why the fuck should we subsidise them?
Anyone know a good chop chop supplier?
I hope they do make it illegal (greed won't let them, hypocrites) because I will get them cheaper or free like heroin addicts

[seiko1]

He can create more stimulus debt by giving me more of my tax dollars back and tax cigarettes even more I say. I take your $40 a pack Gos and raise it to $50 a pack, na fuck it, lets charge 'em $100 a pack.

It's usually the poorest areas with the least intelligent people living there that have the highest smoking rates though and they won't possibly be able to give up the filthy habit so will winge and complain that they are hard done by by the big mean government for making their lives so much harder.

Jesus fucking christ Nelso, if this was Nazi Germany you would be a Gestapo Officer no fucken doubt
You chose not to become addicted (we were'nt aware) but don't go slingin that kind of fucken shit in my direction
because I smoke.
Maybe you drink alcohol and bash the fuck outa the missus
It may be fashionable to pick on and descriminate against smoko's but it is still illegal,
see how far you get if you post shit like Arab Prick or Fat Cunts or Alco bastards
Fuck anyone who thinks less of us because we smoke.
We don't take up two seats, rob houses, bash old people, or fight in the streets because we use nicotine.
Fuck all you tow the line mother fuckers, brainwashed weaklings

[IsleofNinja]

Now if the revenue from this went into building better (twistier / on cambered nice smooth hotmixed) roads there would be no issue on this forum I'm thinking
alas I fear Krudd will squander the royalties once again in some ill thought out / poorly executed scheme .......
Oh and bet alcohol will be next wattie ..... greedy caaarhrnss!!!!

Hmmm 4 left - to buy or not to buy ...... (my lid liner will love me if i give up - surely!!)

[Bogan]

Patches rock!!!

I've been ciggy free since some time last year and feeling better for it.

Macca had the best idea last night, instead of more anti smoking ads they should subsidise the quit smoking programs in all their guises, this is a far better way than scare tactics or price increases to get Joe Public off the durries.

[MrWasabi]

either patches or read "the easy way to quit smoking" by Allen Carr. I half read the book a couple of years ago and i quit for a year.
Started up again for several reasons, but i reckon that had i finished it i would have been ok.
2 left in the pack, not planning on buying any more