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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
It should tell you everything you need to know that despite the income stream the government want shot of smoking.
Besides, have to keep increasing the tax. Smokers seem to keep getting lung and other cancers, needing tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds of care to try and slow the disease then in palliative care, and then die. Not sure quite how that works. Must be a coincidence.
As fewer people are smoking now need to keep raising the tax to keep the income stream going, given that's evidently in your mind what it's all about.
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Old article but fairly relevant
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/heal...r-alcohol.html
So in order of strain on the NHS it's
Fast/Junk Food
Cigarettes
Alcohol
Yet oddly enough only one of the above is consistently targeted with raised tax increases.
Surely (and this isn't aimed at you directly) if you're argument is to alleviate the pressure on the NHS then all three of the above should be treat the same ways in terms of restrictions/marketing etc.
Big Mac with images of hardened arteries on the carton anyone?