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Originally Posted by foreverwar
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.
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And their staff?
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I have had relatives die horribly to, I am not advocating for smoking, just that they get a raw deal, it's all to easy for the government to raise the revenue and then tell us it's for our benefit, notice they fail to point out that they haven't actually lost a penny as such in revenue from the cross channel smugglers due to the taxation increases, so again law abiding smokers are footing the bill for those that choose to evade revenue.
As for staff, considering that there are more cancer causing chemicals in the air in rush hour traffic than in a local pub, where do you draw the line with that argument, ban cars, oh yes they are trying to, purely for our benefit I'm sure and that's without even going into the 'you choose to work there argument' (thank goodness)