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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I'm surprised the Government doesn't encourage smoking(!)

The vast majority of the price of cigarettes is tax. I believe that smokers should pay extra tax towards the increased cost of their healthcare needs and they do.

For each £1 in tax paid on cigarettes only about 20p is required to pay for the extra healthcare.

Smokers tend to die younger, meaning that after paying more tax than the average non smoker, they don't get to draw their pension for very long if at all- an absolute bargain for the Government.

Now hang on don't come on here talking sense and placing facts in front of a perfectly good arguement