Burning out: how Australia’s bid to cut smoking rates exploded into suburban tobacco wars - eviltoast
With the illicit market worth at least $2bn a year and the rise of illegal vapes, experts say the status quo is failing
  • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.orgEnglish
    10·
    12 days ago

    This was inevitable and forseen.

    Realistically recreational drugs can’t be priced out of existence. Stuff like plain packaging is fantastic, more funding to help addicts quit would be good (e.g. naltrexone pbs trials) would be nice.

    At a certain point you just have to accept not getting 100% of people off them, and recreational drugs are the place for a government monopoly so there’s no profit incentive to undermine cessation efforts.

  • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    They really need to stop raising the prices until they can get this under control.