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Tobacco Giants go to the courts with the UK Gov.Org.

The Beef (fixed link)

Some Statistics

Some History
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[Polarbear]

And revenue from smoking is far in excess of any figure the BMA pluck from thin air. (and no, I don't smoke)

https://www.the-tma.org.uk/tma-publications-research/facts-figures/tax-revenue-from-tobacco/
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[Ste]

inb4 self righteous ex-smokers.

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Yep, smokers pay huge amounts of cash to the treasury and die younger, needing less state pension. A very noble gesture.

I fail to believe the idea that smokers cost the NHS more when they die earlier and don't need funding in a care home until they're 95.
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about 20% of UK population smoke.

Get them back inside the pubs then.

It is a democracy init?


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[DrDonnyBrago]

Non smoker - yes.

Imagine how many old people we'd have without it, we'd need to introduce a winter fuel tax to keep the numbers down.

30 years of state pension costs a hell of a lot more than the occasional pneumonectomy.

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[stinkwheel]

Your hyperlinks "The Beef" and "Some History" both link to the same article.

I demand beef. You can't just promise beef then deliver history!
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[stinkwheel]

Beneficial to the people of the Uk or the balance sheet of the uk?
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[mentalboy]

Does uk.gov.coffers take more in tobacco tax than they lose to NHS costs and unproductive workdays?

I don't know about the benefits to the UK as a whole but it's nice not to wake up with a mouth that tastes like an ash tray and the whole coughing up blood every time I got a chest infection was getting to be a tad tiresome.
Whilst I was in the UK, post-quitting I think uk.gov.coffers probably took more from me in tax from chocolate bars than they ever did in rollies. Now I am just a fat bastard ex-smoker

[skatefreak]

*ding ding ding ding*
Sugar tax!
If that gets through, give it a couple of years an we'll be paying in notes for a cheeky boost bar
Its hard to fathom how much money the government is raking in when they are pledging to give away billions in foreign aid, of which they know a lot is going to be pissed up the wall...

Just bleeding taxing everything. Getting a bit silly really....

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[smegballs]

Regardless of whether smoking is "beneficial" or not, I don't think the govt has the right to say what you can or can't put into your body. Which is usually the next question after "is it beneficial" is asked - should it be allowed/banned....

I actually enjoy smoking the odd fag, as in less than 10 a year, on a night out now and again. At the same time though the thought process of "I fancy a smoke, let's go buy some fags" just isn't in my brain, it would never occur to me as a thing to do.

I like that smoking kills off oldies and lowers the pension bill, that's gotta be a good positive right there.

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