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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Let's get on down to the Jonesy demanded ramps for

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Speaker 2: the pub test this morning.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're looking at cigarettes and the continuing way to

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Speaker 3: get Australians to smoke less. The new plan it's being

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Speaker 3: looked at, explored by a new center at the University

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Speaker 3: of Queensland, is that you need to have a prescription

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Speaker 3: at a pharmacy to buy cigarettes. So you'd have to

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Speaker 3: where would you get the prescription from your doctor? Imagine

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Speaker 3: that lecture every time, So you'd have to go to

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Speaker 3: your doctor and get a prescription, take it to the pharmacy. Smoking,

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Speaker 3: I know, is a massive addiction. The government puts the

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Speaker 3: prices up. We pay more than most places around the

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Speaker 3: world for tobacco products. A twenty pack of cigarettes costs

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Speaker 3: about forty bucks.

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Speaker 2: What's up to fifty it's getting up to fifty bucks.

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Speaker 3: Now really, so the more price I don't know the statistics,

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Speaker 3: but do people stop smoking the more expensive it gets.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of people who don't.

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Speaker 2: It depends on what sort of smoking you are.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's right. Would making it more convenient and having

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Speaker 3: to go to adoptor to get a prescription every time.

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Speaker 3: Would that stop your saying, I'm just.

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Speaker 2: Going to force people to go underground and start buying

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Speaker 2: illegal cigarettes where doing it does well, that's what you know.

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Speaker 2: What that recent thing was. Those guys were all the

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Speaker 2: counterfeit cigarettes coming through places like Dubai and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: It's called chop chop. They get this tobacco and it

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Speaker 2: comes out. They don't pay a government excise. Where do

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Speaker 2: you buy it and they just buy the shops that

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Speaker 2: are in the know. You go in and see old mates,

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Speaker 2: they I'll have a bit of bit of that and

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Speaker 2: he sells them out under the counter. Jail was an

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Speaker 2: interesting place with cigarettes because cigarettes were more expensive in

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Speaker 2: jail than heroin.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, isn't it so? Well?

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Speaker 2: People like my wife go underground to buy a cigarette.

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Speaker 2: She's not going to give up smoke it. She's been

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Speaker 2: smoking since she was fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Years of ater. So would she get a prescription and

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Speaker 3: go to the pharmacy. It wouldn't change.

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Speaker 2: I think she just she'll keep smoking it, and she

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Speaker 2: hates it. She wants to give it up. It's such

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Speaker 2: a hard thing.

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Speaker 3: It is such a hard thing. And Australians at the moment,

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Speaker 3: Australia is smoking prevalence is just under fifteen and the

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Speaker 3: government would like to get it to ten percent by

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. So would this work? What do you

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Speaker 3: think having still had a prescription to buy cigarettes, does

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Speaker 3: this pass the pub test?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I think it does, but with three points the

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Speaker 1: prices shouldn't go up any further. Not this should be

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Speaker 1: recommending healthier options if that's possible. Smokers should be bringing

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Speaker 1: back an hagget of twenty five years buzz and get

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Speaker 1: a set or fifty rebate. This is a load of rubbish.

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Speaker 1: I shomake for over thirty years. I gave up when

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Speaker 1: everyone stopped harassing me to give up, and I could

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Speaker 1: do it in my own time. This is jupid. I'm

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Speaker 1: all for anything that got people from smoking or help

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Speaker 1: those who want to give up smoking.

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Speaker 4: I thought we.

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Speaker 1: Lived in the democracy.

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Speaker 4: People know how bad smoking is. If they want to

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Speaker 4: kill themselves with cigarette down, you think that's their problem.

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Speaker 2: What a crocker crap.

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Speaker 4: It is just another way of the government making revenue

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Speaker 4: through medicare and through the doctors. The government needs to

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Speaker 4: get a life and leave poople alone and let people

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Speaker 2: Live ironic, let people live by smoking with joins and

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Speaker 2: Amanda