Australia ablaze

Neo-prohibitionists have normalised arson and murder

From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)…

Police link dozen Queensland arson attacks to illegal tobacco trade

Police have linked a dozen arson attacks in Queensland to the illicit tobacco trade in the past year.

Queensland Police Service's Taskforce Masher has investigated attacks from Mount Isa to Townsville, as well as the south-east, where a Brisbane tobacco shop was firebombed on Boxing Day.

Queensland has got off lightly. Nationwide, Australia had seen around 215 arson attacks on tobacco and vape shops since the nicotine turf wars began in 2023. On Thursday, a 27 year old woman died after her house was set ablaze. It appears that the gang targeted the wrong address.

As I have said before, this escalating catastrophe was completely avoidable. All the government had to do was legalise vapes and set tobacco taxes at an affordable level.

"If we go back say five or ten years there wasn't a particularly big black market for cigarettes," said Dr Martin.

"But legal cigarettes were becoming less and less affordable due to very significant tax increases that began in the early 2010s."

Those tax increases plus new restrictions on nicotine products and a ban on consumer vapes have helped fuel the black market, Dr Martin said.

The solution is so simple, but Australian politicians are so spellbound by ‘public health’ dogma that they won’t even contemplate it. Instead, they have learned to treat firebombings and murder as a fact of life.

And here’s a clown from ‘public health’ to deliver the punchline…

Griffith University public health expert Lennert Veerman said the next logical step in Australia's anti-smoking campaign was a blanket ban.

“If enforcement cannot be improved to a degree that we get the genie back in the bottle, then you might have to say 'Okay, we'll take the next step. We quit'.”

How do these deranged wowsers have the nerve to show their faces? In a sane society, they would be tarred and feathered. Instead, as in Britain, the government throws taxpayers’ money at them and hangs on their every word. Their policies could not have backfired more spectacularly. The critics who they attacked and smeared have been proven right in the most dramatic way and Australia is a cautionary tale for the rest of the world.

Read that quote from Veerman again. Insofar as it is a coherent thought, it is one of the stupidest things anyone has ever said. Cracking down on the black market by making a product completely illegal? How did that go with e-cigarettes, you dolt?

These people should be investigated, de-funded and blacklisted before they can do any more damage.