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Originally Posted by Zuts
Cheap chinese/vietnamese/indonesian/mexican smokes are available everywhere at around $130 per 10 pack carton (25%).
The government claims smoking rates have dropped, a lot of the drop would be people switching to these under the counter cigarettes, which at the price the legal smokes are selling for is very understandable.
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The gubberment ARE IDIOTS, people haven't quit, everyone I know who smokes buys the 100 packs at the cheap places or the illegal tobacco. So many kids walking around with illegal under the counter vapes and so many people buying under the counter chop chop which in my opinion is a reasonable smoke. I've met numerous people who have never smoked yet they vape and yes, I have nicotine in my freezer but I don't use it.
I smoke, I've been smoking for WAY too long and am currently on a pill to help me quit, it's slowly working and I've not had a cigarette today (a record).
Personally, I buy the cheap tobacco, $25 for 50 grams, if I buy 4 I get one free so that's $100 for 250 grams. At a retail tobacconist the same quantity would be $750 so the government get their chop, in the usual tobacconist.
My doctors have told me every time I've tried to get patches or anti smoking aids that the government really doesn't want me to stop.
It used to be $13 BILLION plus in taxes, now we all support organised crime instead.
Even government ministers have stated this tax creep on cigarettes is fuelling the illegal industry.
"Buying illegal tobacco is supporting organised crime"
So what do people think our government is?
I do buy an occasional pack of 20 normal taxed cigarettes which I keep in my car for when I'm out. Normally they are $32 but this morning when my regular place was still closed I decided I'd just buy a pack of 20 from Coles, $50.60. I told the young fellow at the counter to shove them back in the drawer from whence they came (politely, he's a friend) and went to another place and paid $30 for 20.
I've been smoking since high school.
I'm doing my best to quit!
What people don't understand and I explain this to some doctors while many do actually understand. I cope with chronic pain EVERY day, uncontrollable pain in the form of chronic migraines there is no treatment for and I've spent over $250,000 when working on specialists and treatments, I could have bought the 3 bedroom house I was renting in Bexley for less.
Smoking helps me live a normal life, it stops me going off the deep end and I live an almost regular life dealing with pain most people would never understand and hopefully, NEVER experience.
Oh, before anyone asks, I've given up numerous times, the longest period was for 3 years, it's NEVER made a difference to my migraines and I was diagnosed long before I ever started smoking or ever knew what an opioid was.
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Originally Posted by kvmx
Moral of the story: NEVER START! You'll regret it.
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I tell so many people this but, I was told exactly the same thing when I was a teen.
I take MS Contin every day, multiple yet I can go 3 days without it if I can cope with the pain (no, they are not overuse migraines though I've been taking it for too many years) but I can't go without a cigarette without my brain going to crap (I don't get angry I just have no idea what I'm doing), I even struggle to shower, something I do every day, often more than once.
The Zyban are slowly helping though I'm struggling to sleep even with 3 Temazepam.