'£10 licence to smoke' proposed

Zubi420 said:
making it 10$ or whatever more expensive is not gonna stop smokers from smoking. Nicotine patches, gums, and other treatments/detox will help. Besides if people wanna smoke let them. I thought we were free to do whatever made us happy. Now the government is pushing us to do one thing and stop another?
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I'm sorry friend, but you thought wrong. Free to do what makes us happy? I like smoking pot all day and walking to the post office in my birthday suit... A sad reminder of our cultural deficit. Good point you've made though, of course.
 
haribo1 said:
Add a pound or so. Any brand thats not just awful is 4.50 or even 5 quid for 20. That's $10 a pack :) I can believe that people are thinking, my god, I'm spending 35-40 quid a week on this!
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bE GLAD YOU'RE NOT
 
“He added: "70% of smokers actually want to stop smoking.
"So if you just make it that little bit more difficult for them to actually re-start or even to start in the first place, yes I think it will make a big difference."

Oh how nice they are actually doing this to help smokers the government is always so helpful.
 
haribo1 said:
Add a pound or so. Any brand thats not just awful is 4.50 or even 5 quid for 20. That's $10 a pack :) I can believe that people are thinking, my god, I'm spending 35-40 quid a week on this!
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nono, out of the cost of a pack of 20,
about £3.50 is tax.
 
qubert said:
“He added: "70% of smokers actually want to stop smoking.
"So if you just make it that little bit more difficult for them to actually re-start or even to start in the first place, yes I think it will make a big difference."

Oh how nice they are actually doing this to help smokers the government is always so helpful.
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Governments all aspire to this shit, they probably have collective wet dreams about achieving the level of control that soviet Russia had.

Thats why people need to realize government is a needed evil that must always be kept humble and fearful of the true masters. When things get reversed you get bullshit like this.
 
From BBC news:

Smoking is good news for the Treasury, with about £4.10 of the £5.50 cost of a packet of cigarettes taken in taxes.

Excluding VAT, this earned the Treasury more than £8bn in 2004-5, Ash says.

Treating diseases caused by smoking is costly, however. The campaign group says the NHS spends £1.5bn a year, including hospital admissions, GP consultations and prescriptions. There are further costs in the form of benefits.
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That's a lot of money for them to lose if everyone does quit smoking. And the expenses on health care will take years to start coming down. I wonder why they want to do it, like qubert i don't think it's because they care!

Oh, didn't see the reply above. Yeah control is worth spending money on i guess, you think they need more control though? I guess a better question would be do they think they need more control, probably yeah!
 
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