What should we do with Tobacco?
Smoking kills 67% of users, no product that addictive should be allowed to have that hold over the market!
We want people off ciggies and onto vapes without addicting a new generation of vapers while respecting individuals right to choose after 18.
We need to deal with our vices in ways that are different to other industries because of the social harm making them illegal would cause. That’s why we need a Vice Tax on business activity whose social damage doesn’t get covered by the taxation they pay!
Gambling, Tobacco & Booze, all of them need the heavy jack boot of the State on their throats at all time!
The Vice tax would be special super tax on top of the total profits made on products that are a blight upon society.
Why should the Gambling Booze Tobacco Barons peddle their harmful products with the barest of responsibility?
Rather than constantly making it a tax the consumer pays, hit the booze barons, Tobacco Pimps and Gambling dealers with a ring-fenced super tax on their profits margins.
To allow 8000 to die because National want tax cuts for their rich mates is outrageous.
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Duncan Garner: The tax cuts to die for
Scrapping smokefree legislation means we’re trading people’s lives for tax cuts.
End of story.
Free smokes for everybody over 65 who wants them, excepting wandering minds who might set their sofas on fire, and instant fines for lowlifes who dispose of butts in public places. If Singapore can do this, so can we.
Abolish government departments Friday night boozeups which encourage complicity in drunkenness, dangerous driving, lushes fulfilling ratepayer-funded public roles, vomit on the pavements, and violence in both A&E Depts and the kitchens and bedrooms of eggshell walkers and terrified children.
“What should we do with tobacco?” Smoke loads of it according to Nicola Willis. She has a hole that needs filling if you’ll pardon the expression
I hear that Nicola Willis is “waiting to hear back from officials”. So probably a no-goer. Which begs the question of where the dollars for the promised tax cuts will come from. Science-based evidence and common sense may well prevail. A vice tax is another matter however. But agreed its needed for tobacco.
And as for Dr Shane Reti. Didn’t he look hangdog during question time. Simply lost for words. The fact that he delegated the decision to his Associate Minister doesn’t excuse him.
Listen to the science of how to reduce its use; certainly not make it easier to get to increase the tax take – totally immoral.
Whilst we are about it, clamp down urgently on vapes. Allowing a new generation to become addicts for commercial profit is also immoral and plain stupid.
Yes to that, I can’t believe that so many people think that vapes count as giving up smoking so are considered a stop smoking device. The delivery is different but the aim is still to get people hooked and take their money.
Bonnie E-cigs are much cheaper than regular tobacco cigarettes, and as the price of cigarettes has escalated so astronomically, addicted smokers have turned to them as a less costly substitute, but I gather that they’re being dumped. Ascertaining the nicotine content is difficult.