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Title: How smokers are paying for the nation's health care with $17billion paid in tobacco taxes
Post by: Katy Perry on May 10, 2018, 03:19:40 AM

How smokers are paying for the nation's health care with $17billion paid in tobacco taxes

Australian smokers are paying 20 per cent of the national health bill out of their own pockets, thanks to hefty tobacco taxes, with a September price hike set to send prices to $40 a packet.
Source: How smokers are paying for the nation's health care with $17billion paid in tobacco taxes (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5712033/How-smokers-paying-nations-health-care-17billion-paid-tobacco-taxes.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490)