{"id":147048,"date":"2016-09-06T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/articles\/cigarettes-price-increase-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:11:16","slug":"cigarettes-price-increase-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/cigarettes-price-increase-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarettes \u00a317\/$30 a pack in Australia!"},"content":{"rendered":"    <section  class=\"container container--large article-container\">\n            <div class=\"article \">\n            <div class=\"article__sidebar\">\n                <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section author\">\n                    <div class=\"author__avatar\">\n                                                                                                            <img decoding=\"async\"\n     src=\"https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16005813\/marl-200x136.jpg\"\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16005813\/marl-50x34.jpg 360w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16005813\/marl-100x68.jpg 768w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16005813\/marl-200x136.jpg 1440w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16005813\/marl-400x272.jpg 2000w\"\n             alt=\"\"\n               \/>                                            <\/div>\n                    <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Written By<\/span>\n                    <a class=\"u-text-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/cigarettes-price-increase-in-australia\/\" title=\"Cigarettes \u00a317\/$30 a pack in Australia! 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They\u2019ve been ostracised, nagged, harassed, targeted with terrifying health warnings, haunted by horrific photos of health issues caused by smoking, banned, banished, and pushed toward a lifetime of nicotine addiction by encouragement to use nicotine patches, gum, and e-cigarettes.<br><br>It continues to be \u2018open season\u2019 on smokers and all but the most mean-spirited former smoker must feel tremendous sympathy for the plight of the modern day smoker.<br><br>Thankfully \u2013 everyone involved with Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway to Quit Smoking organisation feels the smokers\u2019 pain. One of the main qualifications for being in \u2018Team Allen Carr\u2019 is not only that you have been a smoker but that you were also set free by the method. Our team across the globe, including our AWESOME team in Australia, headed up by Natalie Clays, Di Fisher, and Jaime Reed, can all empathise with smokers who feel disenfranchised, marginalised, and bullied. We are in no way \u2018anti-smoker\u2019 \u2013 we were all caught in the trap once \u2013 we merely exist in order to help anyone who wants to quit \u2013 to set themselves free.\n<p class=\"larger_text\">Will sky-high prices force smokers into attempting to quit?<\/p>\nMaybe. It will certainly make the cost of our books and live quit smoking seminars across Australia even better value (although with the money back guarantee that we offer at the seminars \u2013 the price we charge is pretty irrelevant).<br><br>It is likely that the price rises, caused by a 12.5% federal government tax hike, to be repeated every year until 2020, might also fuel the black market for smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes.<br><br>Of course the high price might deter youngsters from initially experimenting with cigarettes \u2013 although kids have an un-erring ability to obtain cigarettes in \u2018singles\u2019 or \u2018loosies\u2019 (one cigarette at a time) from a variety of sources. After that &#8211; the addiction pretty much takes over.<br><br>Anyone who\u2019s witnessed the poverty stricken adult smokers of Africa and the Far East also buying \u2018singles\u2019 instead of food for their family no doubt has an insight into the \u2018sticking power\u2019 of nicotine addiction. Having been mercilessly targeted by Big Tobacco, the age at which children have started smoking in those regions has got younger and younger over the past two decades. So pricing smokers out of the market alone \u2013 isn\u2019t enough. Kids need to be educated to avoid addiction and smokers need to be helped to quit.<br><br>Back in Australia &#8211; several cigarette companies are attempting to ameliorate and disguise the effect of the tax hike by reducing the number of cigarettes in a pack. Unlike Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway, cigarette companies treat their customers as if they\u2019re stupid.<br><br>If the anti-tobacco establishment in Australia, who have succeeded in making it the most expensive country in the world in which to be a smoker, could add Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway to Quit Smoking into the mix &#8211; their policy might well be more effective. It\u2019s simply not good enough, or for that matter fair, to push smokers around and tax them to the hilt without also offering them an effective means of quitting smoking.<br><br><a class=\"button red hvr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/easyway-stop-smoking\/\">Read more about &#8216;How to Quit Smoking&#8217;<\/a><br><br><strong>#QuitSmoking #StopSmoking #BeAddictionFree #AllenCarr<\/strong><br><br><em><strong>From the desk of John Dicey, Worldwide CEO &amp; Senior Facilitator, Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway<\/strong><\/em><br><br>Read more:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3768280\/Smokers-hit-massive-12-5-cent-tax-increase-cigarette-packets-taking-price-30.html#ixzz4JSYiqMH0\"> http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3768280\/Smokers-hit-massive-12-5-cent-tax-increase-cigarette-packets-taking-price-30.html#ixzz4JSYiqMH0<\/a><\/span><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        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