This is the choice of the state government, and it’s helping them to lose the election unfortunately.
You make vapes illegal you create a black market. You have a black market for one thing, why not throw tax free tabacco in there too.
Oh you need to be criminal to get some of this stuff… Well the other shops are doing it and booming! So now everyone has to.
Oh great, now you have thousands of low level crime networks in contact with kids… Some of the kids get hired to do some firebombing (fucking up on a generational scale now, no sense of normal work/life for them now).
All because the fucking state government wants to lose the election (and didn’t want the healthier option of vapes to be available)… And look at the polls, Labor are on track to lose federally:
Additionally: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/criminal-gangs-making-fake-plain-packaging-cigarettes/107267606
Seems our industrious crime syndicates are setting up factories in Cambodia. Manufacturing cheap ciggies with the correct plain packaging…🤣
The couple have set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for repairing and replacing equipment, paying outstanding staff and supplier costs and planning a new home for And Bodega
No insurance?
Insurance is refusing to pay out. It’s the in the article…
The couple say their contents insurance… is expected to provide a payout of about $25,000. But the funds are not expected to cover the costs of rebuilding the cafe at the same location.
Sounds like they didn’t have building or business insurance - only contents.
Where are you reading insurance is refusing to pay out?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/20/tobacco-shops-attacks-melbourne-ntwnfb
A long bow. I’ll admit. But not hard to join the dots. That said; Insurance doesn’t pay out while there is ongoing police investigations so they may be waiting a while for a yay or nay.
So to address people firebombing legal tobacco shops…
The government is cracking down on illegal shops?
I don’t understand how that’s gonna do anything, if anything it’s going to make the people bombing legal shops in residential neighborhoods think they’re in the right.
Like tobacco is unhealthy, but so blowing up shit where people sleep
The firebombing is not about government crackdown, it’s probably a protection racket, or extortion.
A lot of “legal” tobacco shops also sell illegal tobacco.
