The Smokers' Rights Party was a registered

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in Australia from 2013 until September 2017. The party was created in order to feed preferences to

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of the Liberal Democratic Party. With the abolition of group voting tickets in 2016, the Smokers' Rights Party was no longer able to act as a preference feeder, and published a statement recommending that supporters vote for Leyonhjelm in the Senate. It was formally deregistered in September 2017. The Smokers' Rights Party states that it does not receive funding from the tobacco industry. Despite this, the Liberal Democrats do, having received at least $35000 from Philip Morris in the 2013-2014 financial year. Smokers Rights fielded only one candidate in the 2016 federal election. This was Joaquim De Lima as a candidate for the

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in the

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. De Lima had previously run as a candidate for the

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( NSW 2011 for Penrith, 2013 Senate NSW, 2014 senate WA, 2015 NSW upper house),"Senate candidates don't live here"
The West Australian, 22 March 2014. and the Liberal Democrats ( Federal 2010 for Greenway).

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