The $31.5 billion in economic and social costs is more than triple the amount of revenue raised by the Commonwealth from tobacco excise, which stood at around $8.3 billion for the last financial year. A Shorten Labor Government will further curtail Australia’s biggest preventable cause of disease and death by raising tobacco excise to bring it in line with world’s best practice. Labor will introduce four annual 12.5 per cent increases in excise on tobacco.
positive towards the welfare state, e.g. health care, pensions or social housing