{"id":21756,"date":"2020-02-02T13:56:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T12:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21756"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T08:27:29","slug":"smoking-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21756","title":{"rendered":"Smoking in Australia&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post-Thumb wp-image-21757\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-1440x1440.png 1440w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Flag.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>Ever wondered how expensive smoking in<br \/>\nAustralia is? Since 2011 the government in<br \/>\nAustralia has raised the price for cigarettes<br \/>\nconstantly. Now here&#8217;s an impressive story.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With a price of 56.95 AUD (that equals about 37 CHF or 35 EUR!) per cigarette pack, smoking is as expensive as nowhere else.<\/p>\n<p>A granny from Tasmania has posted an image what a pack of cigarettes looks like as daily food goodies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Cig_Meal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21758\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Cig_Meal-637x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Cig_Meal-637x480.jpg 637w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Cig_Meal-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Cig_Meal-500x377.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AUS_Cig_Meal.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shocked how much food you can get for some blue smoke instead? Us, too!<\/p>\n<p>in 2018 the price for 20 cigarettes in Australia was already at 27 AUD, in 2019 it was raised to 37 AUD and now is up to 57 AUD.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is the country with the most expensive smoking cost.<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 Ranking as per 2020:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Australia &#8211; 57 AUD<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand &#8211; 36 AUD<\/li>\n<li>Ireland &#8211; 19 AUD<\/li>\n<li>Norway &#8211; 18 AUD<\/li>\n<li>UK &#8211; 17.5 AUD<\/li>\n<li>Iceland &#8211; 17 AUD<\/li>\n<li>Canada &#8211; 14 AUD<\/li>\n<li>Singapore &#8211; 13.75 AUD<\/li>\n<li>Israel &#8211; 13.5 AUD<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland &#8211; 12.5 AUD\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered how expensive smoking in Australia is? Since 2011 the government in Australia has raised the price for cigarettes constantly. Now here&#8217;s an impressive story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,342,3,19],"tags":[783,2647,4364,3722,596,4363,4362,2206],"class_list":["post-21756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-economyfinance","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-australia","tag-chart","tag-comparison","tag-cost","tag-health","tag-ranking","tag-smoking","tag-tax"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}