This is an absolute howler from Tanya Plibersek. We shouldn’t be surprised: Minister shrieks that plan to cut ciggie tax ‘will kill people’. Has she seen the news? PETER VAN ONSELEN

Pauline Hanson announced last month that One Nation would cut tobacco excise by 75 per cent. Now Angus Taylor’s Coalition wants to cut it by 80 per cent.

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