Average cigarette pack costs US$40 in Australia thanks to drastic government anti smoking policies

Insane! What a foolish government failure despite many decades of experience with prohibition!

According to Google search "Australia has some of the world's strictest anti-smoking policies".

"Australia’s aggressive taxes on cigarettes have driven down smoking rates and raised an average pack’s cost to US$40. But they’ve also unleashed a nationwide black market ... 

The tax on a single cigarette has tripled in a decade to about US$1.06.  

Unintended consequences: 

The price spike has launched a huge demand for illegal cigarettes. A pack of under-the-counter cigarettes costs as little as US$7. "

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This is what the top fool look like (PM Albanese)