As a man from the country where the people and the government are more tolerant of smokers, I decided to go to Australia and that's what I noticed there:
If you are tourist smoker and you decided to visit such a wonderful country as Australia, then this is what you should know about tobacco consumption:
In Australia, acting draconian anti-smoking laws that, in my opinion, gets absolutely ugly.
Cigarette Price
The worst thing is the price on cigarettes and tobacco product. The price is regulated by the government through the introduction of extortionate duties, taxes and fees for smokers. I don't know what is the formula, but the retail price on cigarettes is very high, one of the highest in the world.
The price on filtered cigarettes in Australia
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So, the scaring pictures on cigarettes cover almost the entire pack and the brand name of cigarettes is finely written at the bottom of a pack.
Australian smoking rules
In Australia, smoking is prohibited almost everywhere: at bus stops, in parks and gardens, close to the playgrounds, hospitals, pubs and so on. Smoking is allowed only in designated smoking areas. As often happens, the severity of the laws is offset by their weak performance. Australians smoking everywhere: at bus stops, on streets, in the underground public parking garages, around the places where smoking is strictly prohibited: near state agencies, airports and stations, hospitals, on the streets you can often find a mountain of cigarette butts.
Of course the sale of cigarettes to person under 18 years old is prohibited. There are discussions about banning cigarette sale to person under 21 years old. The import of cigarettes in Australia is severely restricted. One person can bring through customs no more than 50 cigarettes = 2.5 cigarette package of 20 pieces. Therefore, it is possible to bring more than 50 cigarettes by paying a fee, almost equal to the price of Australian
The United States is in the lead with the amount of money spent on consuming cigarettes and or tobacco. Smoking is a topic that is well known in the United States, if you walk down the street you are more than likely to see at least two people smoking. Because it is so common a lot of people might not understand what happens when they smoke. When you turn 18 you are at legal age for smoking, although you have been impacted by other smokers. On average, nicotine is still in the air in a highly populated city for 3-4 days. So you have breathed in the smoke for the past 18 years of your
Because of all the negative effects of smoking, the sale of cigarettes has been taxed heavily. The ingredients in cigarettes, especially flavored cigarettes, make it difficult for smokers to quit. In the last few years, both federal and state taxes have increased for tobacco products in the hopes of trying to reduce the number of smokers. The revenue from the tax is used to fund several health related companies. However, some smokers have started to buy cigarettes illegally in order to avoid the tax.
The average cost of a pack of cigarettes is 5.51; However, Missouri’s and Virginia’s average cost is the lowest at 5.25 per pack while New York’s is the highest at 12.25 per pack. If a person smokes a pack a day for 20 years they will end up spending anywhere from 38,220 to 93,548. This amount of money could be a down payment for a house, a car, a college degree, and the list goes on. The cost of smoking goes beyond the unit price of a pack, it also includes the cost of health care. Smoking cigarettes has an extreme effect on the tax payers and health care system. In an up to date questionnaire, analyst came up with a calculation that suggest 8.7 percent, which is 170 billion dollars, of all health care expenses is for sickness or diseases caused by smoking cigarettes (Kennedy). Some life insurance companies will not insure someone with smoke related illness and if they do the premiums are often higher than a
Another very important thing to consider is while these smoking bans may appear to have a good intent, they present to society a difficult scenario if imposed and maintained; they threaten to set a precedent for the restriction of other freedoms that humanity may take for granted. Smoking bans may be justifiable but, like many other prominent moral dilemmas, it may take centuries if not millennia to satisfactorily answer the questions brought forth by the issue. Tobacco use first appeared as early as the days of Christopher Columbus.... ... middle of paper ... ...
A law was recently passed that made it illegal to smoke in your car with a child. I believe this is a very good and healthy law that should be respected. When you smoke in a car with your kids or any child, you expose children to the greater risk of catching a very dangerous disease, such as cancer. This is why we should not smoke in a car in the presence of children. Children are considerably affected when an individual is smoking nearby and the risk increases if an individual smokes in a car.
There needs to be a policy to ban cigarettes, it kills the smoker, in addition, could kill the person exposed to the smoke from cigarettes. “The cigarette is also a defective product, meaning not just dangerous but unreasonably dangerous, killing half its long-term users” (Proctor), cigarettes are not healthy in any way making it a defective product, it mainly kills the smoker rather than helping them. It was produced to be inhalable smoke harming anyone who smokes them making it a defect because in the past the tobacco was too harsh to be inhaled. The policy would help cigarette smokers, especially since they don’t even like the habit of smoking cigarettes, knowing it harms them.
Cigarette contains different poisonous ingredients, and nicotine is the one that creates addiction and leads to different diseases. Smoking cigarette is one of the worst problems our world is facing and the main reason for this term to be stressful is its consequence. Cigarette can cause different diseases that can directly or indirectly lead to death; “tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the united states” (cigarette smoking). Most of the time this consequence highly exists on young smokers or victims can be affected by the consequence because they started smoking young. In the United States 18 is the legal age for smoking cigarette and people are still using this law, but it is now the right time for a change because young citizens were affected a lot as a result of early age smoking. Instead of setting the age limit of smoking cigarette 18, we have to raise it to 21 because of the responsibility, Health issue, and since the alcohol drinking and marijuana smoking age Is 21, we have to use the same age limit for smoking cigarette.
Experiencing the death of a loved one is never easy, especially when the cause is something self-inflicted, such as cigarettes. Imagine if that loved one was your parent or even worse, your own child. Now, imagine watching the demise and physical incapacities that transpire while you see them deteriorate right in front of you. Feel the anger that would coarse through your veins if you were to see an add that glamorized such deadly instruments, particularly once you realize that the areas being marketed are lower class. Cigarettes are legal killers that cripple many individuals and families alike. They are a highly addictive substance that benefit no one. I am against cigarettes in every capacity as I have dealt with the effects of it on a personal level. Cigarettes leave a distaste in the mouth literally and figuratively. I am also a firm believer that
The Victorian ‘Tobacco Act 1987) was the first broad tobacco legislation and aimed to reduce smoking prevalence. The Act states ‘A person must not sell a tobacco product to a person under the age of 18 years.” (Human Service Western Region Tobacco Project Report) As part of this Government intervention, penalties were introduced with the maximum penalty for breaching the provision being $1000 first offence, $2000 second offence and possible loss of tobacco license for subsequent offences. Tobacco sales make up a large percentage of convenience stores sales (Refer to 5.????) and this Government crackdown on cigarettes which has continued to be prevalent has in some respects increased cigarette sales. The state government has acknowledged and concluded “A Disproportionate number of cigarette sales to minors occurred at milkbars and service station convenience stores compared to supermarkets, newsagents, and tobacconists.)
In recent years, smoking has started to take over the lives of many teenagers. The number of teenagers smoking has increased dramatically in the last several years. This is a major problem because smoking can lead to sickness and major diseases that can lead to death. Teens tend to participate in this while out of the presence of an adult figure. Although teens should not be smoking in the first place, an adult figure should be around to help insure that their children are doing the right things, even when they are behind sealed doors with their peers. Teenagers as they mature become a model for younger children and when they set the example of smoking can ruin their respectable image to the children that look up to them.
Although it is beneficial for the economy for the production of tobacco products it is extremely risky to use the product. According to researchers second-hand smoke is terrible for everyone in the world who walk by someone who is exhaling. In the article by Robert Proctor “Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition” he states that cigarettes are the “most deadl...
Every year tobacco is responsible for over 480,000 deaths. That includes people who have died from secondhand smoke. When statistics like this exist it is hard to understand why tobacco is still legal. This number increases every year that passes and most people believe it isn’t shrinking anytime soon. Tobacco should be banned because it’s deadly to not only the users, it’s highly addictive, and the tobacco industry is corrupting information promoting its harmful product. Society shouldn’t have to deal with anymore premature deaths due to a lethal legal product. We should work towards getting this useless product banned everywhere.
Cigarettes are one of the most common killers known to mankind. Cigarettes kill about 6 million people every year, and that number isn’t going to go down in less we do something about it. Smoking in the twentieth century killed only 100 million people, whereas a billion could die in our century. There are several more reasons why we should ban cigarettes, and I am going list them.
The smoker creates arbetens occasions for them multinational tobacco companies and pharmaceutical companies. They are the only argument to suggest that smoking is good (it creates jobs ) .
Smoking cigarettes is a very deadly addiction that, unfortunately, 42.1 million adults in the United States and 6.4 million children have. The reason why so many people get addicted to cigarettes because of nicotine. Medicinenet.com says that nicotine is “Made by the tobacco plant or produced synthetically. Nicotine has powerful pharmacologic effects (including increased heart rate, heart stroke volume, and oxygen consumption by the heart muscle), as well as powerful psychodynamic effects (such as euphoria, increased alertness, and a sense of relaxation). Nicotine is also powerfully addictive.”