True story

In Australia, the excise on tobacco is the federal government’s fifth-highest source of revenue after income tax on workers, companies & superannuation and excise on diesel fuel.

Every 4 years the smokers of the land cough up $50b, enough to fund the whole submarine debacle.

Given that the same govt continues to hypocritically advertise for us to stop smoking, I’d say this is proof positive that there ain’t any ethics left in Canberra.

Not that there was much doubt about that. But it’s possibly worse than you imagined.