🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About The Cigarette Price Rise?

Do cigarette pricing increasing by almost 7% pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Cigarette price spike does it pass the pub test? To
schedule rise in the tobacco X size means cigarette prices
in Australia, already the highest in the developed world, will
jump by nearly seven percent today. So that means that
you're playing a dollar fifty extra on what cigi's are
costing you.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Now, wow, this twenty twenty eight dollars. The x scize
is twenty eight dollars. Now it's going to be twenty nine.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
And how much does that make a pack of cigarette?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's like sixty bucks?

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Wow? Well this is the government says that it's not
about the excise. The government says that this it's an
anti smoking policy, and maybe that is true. Does it
stop kids taking up smoking? But what it has triggered
is an explosion in the black market tobacco industry not.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
To be to the fate market.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah, and therefore associated jump in violent crime. So that's
where we are. So cigarette price hiking does it pass
the pub test?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
No, it doesn't pass the pub test.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Personally, I don't smoke, but it's people's personal choice. I
think that the government just thinks the solution that every
problem is more taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's not I don't think it's going to work because
I've got two kids myself, and you tell them not
to do something and they'll always find a way to
do it.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
So putting the prices up isving going to work. I
spoke for a long time. I only stopped about a
year ago, and now for that to do a surgery,
you just find the legal figurettes everywhere. They're just too
cheap not to smoke. Their price d egg will entice
kids to smoke. It's not going to achieve anything.

Speaker 6 (01:29):
So I'm not a smoker. However, I believe putting the
tax it up for smokes, well that's great if you
want to blow it up and you've got the money
to do it, but it's not going to stop the children,
because they actually going to encourage the children to face
more or take the happy, happy smoke. I believe it's
a good thing for once, but a bad thing for
the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
You got bagg of chump chumping some double happies for Amanda.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I have no idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
I'm sure you do