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Re: smoking and the pub
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
It might be interesting to know how much is generated by tobacco tax compared to what smokers cost the NHS, especially as I seem to remember reports stating that the effects of alcohol cost the NHS more than anything else.
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http://www.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/whytax99.html
"It is true that NHS costs are lower than tobacco tax revenues. Tobacco taxation amounts to £10.5 billion per year whereas a figure for NHS spending on tobacco related disease is £1.7 billion. But so what? The comparison is a false one. Tobacco tax is not and never has been a down payment on the cost dealing with ill health caused by smoking."
My mum died of smoking-related diseases (probably due to the fact she smoked 60 untipped full-strength a day (at least) from the age of 13; I don't feel any better knowing that she contributed to the tax revenues by doing so, and saved the country pension payments by dying earlier than she needed to.
Sometimes it's not about costs, it's about value.
---------- Post added at 12:34 ---------- Previous post was at 12:30 ----------
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Originally Posted by orangebird
Boo Hiss etc. I still think landlords (freehold landlords in particular) should have a choice.
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And their staff?
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