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Smokers' cough up

If this proves accurate - there'll be some slippage of course as some smokers cut back on their smoking, some quit altogether and others die - this means that we would be contributing 80.3% of the total A$6.6 billion 2016/17 budget surplus (as projected in the Budget Papers 2013-14).

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