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Originally Posted by Chris T
As an argument, that's a fallacy - an appeal to authority.
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So what's quoting reams of ASH funded research?
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Originally Posted by Chris
I'm not saying it doesn't need to be accounted for, I'm suggesting that Nidge was overstating the impact of its loss to the Exchequer.
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This may be true if the government has enough money to run the country (in which case where's my rebate?) but otherwise it still has to be replaced. Add to that that its 400000 so far, say another 200-300k people stop in the next year, and the year after that... The hole in the finances gets bigger.
So they ramp up tax on tabacco causing the black market to soar (even more) until they've effectively priced legitimate smokers out of the market.
All that tax will have to be replaced and eventually it won't be just by smokers.