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Originally Posted by towny
Does anybody know what the total tax take from tobacco duty is, and the estimated NHS expenditure on treating smoking-related illness? Banning it altogether might not prove to be such a large net loss to the exchequer as some people claim.
This isn't a rhetorical question - I really don't know the answer to this, but if anyone does, I'd be very interested.  |
TBH, I don't know what the expenditure on smoking-related illness is ( altohugh I'd be surprised if they could really tie it down to a figure as illnesses like lung cancer can still occur even if you've never smoked), but the last figure I heard (a few years ago now, I admit) was that tax income purely from smoking products was in the region of 4 - 5 billion per year.