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l3v1ck
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News CLICKYWhat a waste of tax payers money. The money they save from not buying fags must surely be enough motivation.
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bish
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:45 am
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Location: 'sup mah science bitchezz!?
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It's not like 12 quid breaks the bank anyway. :s
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: just behind you!
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if you pardon the pun, roll it out nationally and with back of the packet of fags calculations. with these assumptions: 20% of population smoke. Population is 55,000,000 All smokers joined. one week costs: 132 million pounds the expenses soon mount up _________________Finally joined Flickr
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bish
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What I can't understand here is that there is SO much money being made on cigarettes.
If it was THAT bad for you. Stop selling them. But they can't... you know why? Because they make to much god damned money on them.
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bobbdobbs
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On a 5.85 pkt the government takes 4.45 due to tax _________________Finally joined Flickr
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saspro
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So 11 million times £4.45 (average 20 per day per person) equals why they don't ban smoking.
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mars-bar-man
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Location: Pompy
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£48,950,000...  _________________Just your friendly neighbourhood mars-bar-man.flickr
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okenobi
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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It's not that simple. There are a lot of jobs, other money and influence tied up in that industry. They can't just stop it. The idea of the tax on cigarettes is supposed to fund the ridiculous amount of NHS spending on smokers. The £12 should probably be coming out of that tax, not "taxpayers money" as a whole. Whether this actually works in practice or not, well that's a different matter...
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saspro
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I believe smoking pays at least 5x more into the NHS than it takes out, so smokers are actually paying for "healthy" people to get sick as well.
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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clickyDepending on who you believe the cost burden to the NHS is between £3.2-5 billion pounds.
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saspro
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Not a bad guess then (approx 18 billion a year income)
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AlunD
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Unless you are like me and bought my cigarettes for years in Belgium. 
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saspro
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I would do but I don't live in Belgium
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AlunD
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Nor do I but its still hugely cheaper. Even after petrol and train costs.
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bish
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Well. I don't smoke that much, so your average of 20 a day is well out. I smoke about 20 a week to be fair.
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