TheGrinchSR wrote: I'd love to know where the whole 25 in a pack thing came from - it's true in Australia too but pretty much everywhere else in the world it's 20 in pack.

Australia sold 30/40/50 packs when I was living there as well as 20/25 packs.

20 packs are perfect pocket size imo.

I think cigarettes wont be available in Australia within about a decade.

They'll be completely priced out of the market and then banned completely.

Alcohol will be next. Already we are seeing lock out laws being enacted across the country. Australia's meat famous night time strip "the kings cross" in Sydney has business decimated with more to follow.

As for phones, mobile rates are becoming quite good. MVNOs like amaysim and boost have changed the market in Australia bringing the price from the majors down too to compete.

With a little bit of planning and effort you can get around 3g/month and unlimited calls etc for less than $10 on Telstra/Optus 4g. Vodafone I'd still best avoided unless you live in (and never travel out of) a cbd.

Digg3r wrote:I think cigarettes wont be available in Australia within about a decade.

They'll be completely priced out of the market and then banned completely.

Alcohol will be next. Already we are seeing lock out laws being enacted across the country. Australia's meat famous night time strip "the kings cross" in Sydney has business decimated with more to follow.

As for phones, mobile rates are becoming quite good. MVNOs like amaysim and boost have changed the market in Australia bringing the price from the majors down too to compete.

With a little bit of planning and effort you can get around 3g/month and unlimited calls etc for less than $10 on Telstra/Optus 4g. Vodafone I'd still best avoided unless you live in (and never travel out of) a cbd.

Funny how Aussie sims are cheaper than cambo Sims at approx 1.4 $ USD average for a pre paid.

^ Cellcard and Smart give free Sim cards in Cambodia, pretty certain the other companies do also.

I can't imagine any modern western country would try to ban alcohol again. It was tried in the US for years and what a disaster. Prohibition of alcohol brought organized crime to a whole new level. It made violent criminals and smugglers rich and famous. Governments will continue to sin-tax the bejesus out of such things, but they won't criminalize ciggies and booze. Too much money to be made.

Rutiger wrote:I can't imagine any modern western country would try to ban alcohol again. It was tried in the US for years and what a disaster. Prohibition of alcohol brought organized crime to a whole new level. It made violent criminals and smugglers rich and famous. Governmetns will continiue to sin-tax the bejesus out of such things, but they won't criminalize ciggies and booze. Too much money to be made.

Poi pet border might profit from its 5 USD Marlboro cartons.

in england you can get 10 packs of cigarettes as well lol
when in england my english sim i get 250minutes any network, free minutes to same network, unlimited text, 500mb data for about £6.50 per month, and i had unlimited data add on for £5 per month, total just shy of £12 per month rolling contract can cancel any time, its an old deal now which is more expensive now but i still get that price

PSD-Kiwi wrote:^ Cellcard and Smart give free Sim cards in Cambodia, pretty certain the other companies do also.

Yeah most do give you a "free" SIM as long as you top up a certain amount.