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I stopped smoking in 2004 when cigarettes hit £3.50 a packet. When I started smoking at 15 you could get 20 Windsor blue superkings for £2.11 from the local Co-op
I was queueing to pay for some petrol this evening and saw that the current price of 20 Rothmans was nearly £7!!!
Amazing! If I was still smoking the 30 a day I used to that's nearly two grand a year.
Gonna stop moaning about people smoking now, your taxes are keeping the country afloat, thank you smokers :D
Specialone
25-06-10, 12:03 AM
Gonna stop moaning about people smoking now, your taxes are keeping the country afloat, thank you smokers :D
Well no there not, cos the cost to the NHS is far greater than tax received im sure :rolleyes:
And it kills you !!
Well no there not, cos the cost to the NHS is far greater than tax received im sure :rolleyes:
And it kills you !!
Yer probably, but then they die younger so don't claim as much pension or get in my way in the post office queue.
So it's all swings and roundabouts lol
Specialone
25-06-10, 12:06 AM
Yer probably, but then they die younger so don't claim as much pension or get in my way in the post office queue.
So it's all swings and roundabouts lol
Good point, my dad died at 52, mom at 65 ;)
Actually I think smoking tax revenue is greater than the cost smokers have on the NHS. Tax revenue from fags about £10billion - cost to NHS, studies show variable figures but its between 3 to 5 billion I think.
But that's all financial. How much are human lives worth?
Anyway, didn't want to get into a debate about the wrongs and rights of smoking, you pays your money, etc etc.
Just amazed at how much they have gone up in price.
Which I assume is mostly tax.
Specialone
25-06-10, 12:15 AM
Actually I think smoking tax revenue is greater than the cost smokers have on the NHS. Tax revenue from fags about £10billion - cost to NHS, studies show variable figures but its between 3 to 5 billion I think.
But that's all financial. How much are human lives worth?
And....there would be less jobs needed on the NHS if people stopped smoking so they would need DHSS, more poeople unemployed,vicious circle :(
Yeh it's a never ending debate.
Smokers definetely cover their NHS costs though. The taxes will only get higher. The government won't/shouldn't allow other taxes to cover the economic costs of smoking, so I guess the argument of 'our taxes pay for smokers healthcare' isn't really true. They're covering more than enough of the costs they cause, and adding more to the government kitty.
And....there would be less jobs needed on the NHS if people stopped smoking so they would need DHSS, more poeople unemployed,vicious circle :(
aaand, there would be 100,000 more Brits alive each year that would have have to find a job and compete for ours, right?;-)
There is no denying the economic benefits of having smokers.
Anyway, at the end of the day there will always be cigarettes and people wanting to smoke. Our bodies, we can do as we wish. Better to have it legal and taxed/controlled, etc.
aand on a seperate note (sorry for the minor derail op, just thought I'd plonk this in here), anyone come across this article...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281538/Smoking-year-old-Ardi-Rizal-40-cigarettes-day.html
the 2 year old who smokes 40 a day :shock:, crazy - poor kid though!!
(coincidentally, his last name is an anagram of rizla, lol).
lukemillar
25-06-10, 01:43 AM
Well no there not, cos the cost to the NHS is far greater than tax received im sure :rolleyes:
And it kills you !!
This age old argument! I would wager that it is the fat, overweight, non-exercising members of the UK who put a bigger burden on the NHS with all the conditions that come with obesity i.e diabetes etc.
I'm not saying the smokers are innocent - just their poison is taxed to the hilt! I say tax fast food. :)
(retired smoker)
i think this explains it.... well the first two minutes anyway,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA
454697819
25-06-10, 11:09 AM
This age old argument! I would wager that it is the fat, overweight, non-exercising members of the UK who put a bigger burden on the NHS with all the conditions that come with obesity i.e diabetes etc.
I'm not saying the smokers are innocent - just their poison is taxed to the hilt! I say tax fast food. :)
(retired smoker)
errr it is..
Owenski
25-06-10, 01:09 PM
Je-zus! £7 for a 20deck now.
I quit new years 2008 at about £5 a deck of L&B's an I thought that was a rip off.
Just shows those that persisted are been made to make up the quitters share. Its getting to be that you've got to be pretty well off to be able to afford to smoke a pack a day, which for me was quite do-able.
EDIT: £2548.00 a year if you smoked 20 a day, thats astonishing!!!
gettin2dizzy
25-06-10, 01:10 PM
Rollies ftw :thumbsup:
Owenski
25-06-10, 01:22 PM
dutchie ftw :thumbsup:
corrected for ya.
Gordon B
25-06-10, 01:26 PM
Our local newsie used to sell them to us kids individually.
10p for a B and H snout. Bargain.
Of course if you could afford a pack of 20 you were the bees knees. You would also keep that pack for months and just keep filling it up with your 10's.:D
Biker Biggles
25-06-10, 01:30 PM
Better explain to our USA readers that "fag"means something rather different here.
Nothing at all to do with gardening of the ascending variety.
Gordon B
25-06-10, 01:35 PM
And did you know that JPS had fiberglass in them.
True that is.
Bluefish
25-06-10, 08:17 PM
smokin is cool and gets you chicks ;)
tigersaw
25-06-10, 08:38 PM
I miss smoking, used to really enjoy it, fag and a pint.
Now its banned from pubs I dont drink either.
plus clubs friggin ming of BO now cos of the smoking ban...rather the smell of fags than a room full of sweat armpits.
Specialone
25-06-10, 09:59 PM
plus clubs friggin ming of BO now cos of the smoking ban...rather the smell of fags than a room full of sweat armpits.
You're going to the wrong type of places :rolleyes:
lol, just read that back to myself...I don't like eating da poo poo, honestly!
james160987
26-06-10, 02:22 AM
exactly why when i go to the middle east (dubai, quatar) etc to visit my dad, i buy bout a years suplly there, bought 1.20 for a 50 gram pouch apposed to 12 quid here, then i buy extra to sell on to pay for my flight ticket lol
metalmonkey
26-06-10, 01:18 PM
Better explain to our USA readers that "fag"means something rather different here.
Nothing at all to do with gardening of the ascending variety.
LOL yeah over the pond it has a different meaning, when I was working over there I did finding it amusing when an english person would over to yank in a bar and ask them for a "fag"
Also I think the smoking is ban is great, I can actually breath when I come out of a bar or club now, so much better yes its had an effect on pubs ect but having someone not somking nr when eating out is a lot more pleasant. I think ppl now are aware of what smoking does to you...
I thought my grandad got it right, as a pow and soldier he use to trade his smokes for food.
Also I think the smoking is ban is great, I can actually breath when I come out of a bar or club now, so much better yes its had an effect on pubs ect but having someone not somking nr when eating out is a lot more pleasant.
Never mind that, you can now wear the same shirt out two nights running.:D
I stopped smoking in 2004 when cigarettes hit £3.50 a packet. When I started smoking at 15 you could get 20 Windsor blue superkings for £2.11 from the local Co-op
I was queueing to pay for some petrol this evening and saw that the current price of 20 Rothmans was nearly £7!!!
Amazing! If I was still smoking the 30 a day I used to that's nearly two grand a year.
Gonna stop moaning about people smoking now, your taxes are keeping the country afloat, thank you smokers :DMy mum smokes, and for the last 15 years we have gone to france and now belguim to buy her fags every 6 months. Darn site cheeper even if you include travel etc.
I don't smoke or drink. I work too hard to waste money on things like that... But I can't thank the smokers & drinkers enough for the tax contributions :)
Milky Bar Kid
26-06-10, 02:16 PM
I would rather spend my money on other things. But just as I choose to jump onto a motorbike and potentially die...or cost NHS thousands, they have the right to do it.
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