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Originally Posted by techguyone
This is a war won by increments, and its working. Far less people smoke now than in the 70's for example, it'll take a while, but eventually smoking will be relegated to drug pushers.
As far as costs go, the old view was, what the Govt made in Tax, was spent on treating smokers & smoking related diseases on the NHS.
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The government makes much more in tax from smokers than it spends treating smoking related disease iirc