Comment on A 'huge' trade-off: One Nation's pitch for cheaper cigarettes
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It can work, it has worked. We had a big illegal cig trade going on, then Chretien lowered the tax and soon the people selling illegal smokes went on to something else, then the taxes were slowly reintroduced til they exceeded where they were before, there still are illegal smokes but not as prevalent as before and I don’t think they are brand names these days. Supposedly the taxes on smokes here goes towards our health care
Nath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
To save anyone else the search: Chretien was the Canadian Prime Minister from 1993-2003.