Wanting to cut premature deaths by almost 15% gets you the label of being a health nut!

[2greys]

Smokers could be forced to get their cigarettes from pharmacies using a prescription under a new plan from anti smoking advocates.

The hardline proposal is part of a university's plan to end smoking forever, and includes cutting off cigarette sales permanently to anyone born after a certain date.

Associate Professor Coral Gartner, from the University of Queensland's Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE), says smoking may never be outlawed but there must be an 'endgame' goal to permanently reduce the use of tobacco which causes nearly 'one in seven deaths' in Australia and is responsible for 'nine percent of the disease burden'.

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[2greys]

"The price of a 25-pack of Malboro cigarettes to about $50 over the past decade." = £27.60. Yet people will still pay it, that is the power of addiction.

[Bkin]

But you don't have to believe the title.

And individuals will do as individuals do.

[2greys in reply to Bkin]

That makes a twenty pack at over £20 one pack a day = £140 a week. Just to put that into context, the state pension is £175.

[Badbessie]

Sadly 2greys from my days as a smoker the number of people who buy smuggled is very high. Personally I think it is a bad idea. One I cannot see GPs having the time nor the resources to keep writing prescriptions. Secondly as you know my daughter works at a chemist and she stated that it would strain resources. Thirdly illegal tobacco products are cheaper than from the shop. In honesty nice idea but not practical.

[Bkin in reply to Badbessie]

besides its summat going on in Oz not UK news. I never paid much mind to the Mail on-line either.

[2greys in reply to Bkin]

Somebody has to be first. Rather an arrogant stance, because it is not the Brits leading the way. Do you think that we do not have Australian members here?

[Bkin in reply to 2greys]

As my 1st comment above, I'm not referring to any nationality in that statement at all.

Hard to know what you think - I may think. You can state it but it won't necessarily be true.

[2greys in reply to Badbessie]

Smuggled tobacco is a big problem yes, but cannot meet the demand of all the smokers. The price would soon soar, supply and demand, the crims do not do it out of love that is for sure.

[Badbessie in reply to 2greys]

Lol....Every pub as a supplier and personally I think the amount of illegal tobacco is vastly underestimated. I thought that with Covid and travel restrictions etc the supply would go down. Sadly from the people I speak too that is not the case.

[2greys in reply to Badbessie]

I tried some of this smuggled tobacco once, I actually ended up throwing it away. It was disgusting and tasted and smelt nothing like the stuff bought from the shop. Perhaps I should have continued buying it, I might have quit the habit years earlier.

[judes]

Heard it all now what a ridiculous idea.

One in seven deaths caused by tobacco, which means six in seven deaths are not caused by tobacco. Nine percent of death burden, ninety one percent are not caused by tobacco

Stats can be read in lots of different ways and this is my interpretation, others will interpret these stats differently.

J