Bay of Plenty smokers are set to have a chunk of their money taken as the price for a packet of cigarettes is set to rise.
Parliament voted unanimously in favour of the increase during the third reading of legislation enabling excise increases outlined in the Government's budget in May.
It means tax rates on tobacco products will rise by 10 per cent every year for the next four years.
By 2016, a standard pack of smokes will cost more than $20.
Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia says the price increases will provide an incentive for smokers to 'kick the habit”.
She says price increases are effective, immediate and known to work.
7 comments
price of fags.
Posted on 19-10-2012 17:59 | By Glen Clova
I gave up when the went up to 75 cents for 20.best thing i ever did.
IF IT
Posted on 19-10-2012 18:09 | By Secret Squirrel
Then double the prive every year and $13/packet now will be $104 in 4 years, think of how many lives would be saved by that!
Get the baseball bats ready folks
Posted on 19-10-2012 21:06 | By The Tomahawk Kid
Watch this space for a new increase in dairy and service station robberies. Get your baseball bats at the ready all you dairy owners - your government is putting your lives in danger again - but its OK - they are saving some other people from themselves, so your suffering is acceptable.
Bang on
Posted on 20-10-2012 06:02 | By justice
Your bang on the money there Tomahawk Kid
Nazi Hypocrites
Posted on 20-10-2012 07:55 | By SpeakUp
Look at them, fat obese politicos curbing personal freedom on health grounds! Lard a$$es prohibiting smoking via price while we have to pay the associated cost of healthcare for these fatsos! The intolerable intrusion on personal freedom and personal liberty by messianic sociopathic politicians is casting a dark shadow on this formerly free and tolerant country. This shadow will impact our society in many ways, not only in forms that Tomahawk Kid mentioned. NB: I'm a non-smoker.
how
Posted on 20-10-2012 09:48 | By Capt_Kaveman
do people on winz afford them let alone how kids in willow st get them
And still......
Posted on 20-10-2012 18:02 | By Donnaw
The price of alcohol remains the same.....correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't alcohol kill just as many people? The only thing this is going to do is cause more crime....but the so called smart people sitting in the big seats don't think that far, not when it means more taxes for their pockets
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