tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post8996196581391961575..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: More Plain Packs PropagandaDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-31916019590070757972014-07-17T12:30:52.426+01:002014-07-17T12:30:52.426+01:00None, but it is common knowledge from the news and...None, but it is common knowledge from the news and other programmes on the tv and radio in Oz!truckerlynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-58651923346022246382014-07-17T06:15:57.403+01:002014-07-17T06:15:57.403+01:00What percentage of border entry points does your a...What percentage of border entry points does your aunt monitor?Keith Ngnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-28933126413464460162014-07-17T06:14:04.300+01:002014-07-17T06:14:04.300+01:00You are misreading the graph. It is a graph of % c...You are misreading the graph. It is a graph of % change in sales, not of sales. (i.e. The 3% is a "change in change".)Keith Ngnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-27607067883454892912014-06-26T20:45:21.295+01:002014-06-26T20:45:21.295+01:00I spoke to my aunt in Australia last Sunday and sh...I spoke to my aunt in Australia last Sunday and she confirmed that far more cigarettes are entering the country than previously and more people are buying them! <br />She also said that you can only now take 100 duty free cigs into Australia.<br /><br /><br />Black Market guys must really love all this anti tobacco shit!truckerlynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-24826268129741771022014-06-26T06:00:53.250+01:002014-06-26T06:00:53.250+01:00The SMH is Sydney's version of the Guardian. ...The SMH is Sydney's version of the Guardian. Any further left and they'd be through the footpath and into the front garden.Antonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-92069230037931626992014-06-26T01:44:41.293+01:002014-06-26T01:44:41.293+01:00That's all ABS data rather than the Treasury e...That's all ABS data rather than the Treasury excise returns, which should be the more accurate ones.<br /><br /><br />I'd still say that it's way too early to call results on plain packs, where the main effects should be on new smoking uptake. That's, I'd thought, the main claim that the anti-tobacco folks were wanting to make for plain packs. Still too early to tell on that one.Eric Cramptonhttp://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-30669426431539243802014-06-25T20:13:09.642+01:002014-06-25T20:13:09.642+01:00Seems like there was an increase in sales after pp...Seems like there was an increase in sales after pp. Was this in anticipation of the tax hike they knew was going to happen?westcoast2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-31037727300930886112014-06-25T15:23:17.792+01:002014-06-25T15:23:17.792+01:00Except it looks to me as though the data shows the...Except it looks to me as though the data shows there was a 3% increase in sales between Dec 2012 and Dec 2013 (with a peak increase of 4.7% from Dec 2012). Or am I misreading the graph?Rob Heyesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-10972392100735520262014-06-25T14:34:09.755+01:002014-06-25T14:34:09.755+01:00We are in 2014. Last year is 2013. This is what pe...We are in 2014. Last year is 2013. This is what people usually mean by last year - the year previous to the current year. The SMH said that "3.4 per cent fewer cigarettes were sold last year (i.e. 2013) than 2012." Please reread the original sentence.<br /><br />They sourced this from the Department of Health site, which says:<br /><br />"The Commonwealth Treasury has further advised that tobacco clearances (including excise and customs duty) fell by 3.4% in 2013 relative to 2012 when tobacco plain packaging was introduced."<br /><br />The graph is not from Treasury. It's from ABS. You can tell this because it says "Source: ABS" on the bottom right. ABS is not Treasury.<br /><br />Yes. The excise hike explains the large drop immediately after it. That's why the author wrote: "The national accounts show a further fall of 7.6 per cent in the three months to March after the first of a number of big increases in tobacco excise announced late last year." That is not attributing to plain packs.<br /><br />In the sentence before that: "The Treasury data is consistent with national accounts data that shows a decline of 0.9 per cent in the amount of tobacco and cigarettes sold between 2012 and last year." They are saying the national accounts show a small decline in 2012-2013, before the excise hike.<br /><br />FFS.Keith Ngnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-88144599652168080352014-06-25T12:52:21.759+01:002014-06-25T12:52:21.759+01:00People who smoke are happier. GOAL!People who smoke are happier. GOAL!Edgarnoreply@blogger.com