From: Vice
When Treasurer Scott Morrison announced in May’s Budget that Australians are set to pay $45 for a packet of cigarettes by September 2020, Aussie smokers were outraged. Meat pies were dropped in shock, VBs tossed in anger. A collective howl swept through the nation’s smokers, like wolves on heat their cries echoed through the night: You can’t farken do that to our daaarts, fuck ya.
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Despite some successful efforts by law enforcement to stop the flow of illicit tobacco into the country, it is still being smuggled in and sold relatively freely across Australia.
