Tom Hird
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- Sep 8, 2026
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Cheap ciggies isn’t the fix. To beat the tobacco mafia, we need to think like the mafia (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Six years ago, the Commonwealth collected $16.3 billion in tobacco excise. That figure will have collapsed to $4.1 billion this year, Treasury estimates, and by the end of the decade it’ll be just $2 billion. Meanwhile, investigations of wastewater by the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest that since 2017 nicotine consumption (including from illegal vapes) has increased by 40 per cent. Let’s
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