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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Smokers paid to quit. |
News CLICKY What a waste of tax payers money. The money they save from not buying fags must surely be enough motivation. |
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| Author: | bish [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. |
It's not like 12 quid breaks the bank anyway. :s |
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:46 am ] | |||||||||
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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 |
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| Author: | bish [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. |
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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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:54 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. | |||||||||
On a 5.85 pkt the government takes 4.45 due to tax |
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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:59 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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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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| Author: | mars-bar-man [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:08 am ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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£48,950,000... 
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| Author: | okenobi [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:20 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. | |||||||||
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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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:35 am ] | |||||||||
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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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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. |
clicky Depending on who you believe the cost burden to the NHS is between £3.2-5 billion pounds. |
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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. |
Not a bad guess then (approx 18 billion a year income) |
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| Author: | AlunD [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. |
Unless you are like me and bought my cigarettes for years in Belgium. 
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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:00 pm ] | |||||||||
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I would do but I don't live in Belgium |
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| Author: | AlunD [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. |
Nor do I but its still hugely cheaper. Even after petrol and train costs. |
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| Author: | bish [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smokers paid to quit. |
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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