Tax raised on cigarettes?

Its quite simple. To summarise: Us smokers are the generous benefactors of our society, who gleefully spread our largesse around the nation so that there’s more room in old people’s homes for the more chaste among you to dissolve into mental illness while watching cash in the attic and soiling yourselves

But as you have correctly observed, we are generally dirty dirty dirty. We do indeed smell of smoke. But then, its better than smelling of wee 😀

You probably smell of wee too. And poo. And biscuits.

mmmmm, biscuits !

I don’t smell of biscuits as i can’t stand them. But when it comes to smelling, here’s my role model…..

The cost of smoking-related disease to the NHS is less than the revenue smoking creates per year by several billion. However, as mentioned, there is a bigger picture than just healthcare. The cost on our society has been greater than the revenue from smoking since 2003. It’s estimated to have cost the UK ~£3.5billion in 2009.

I’m afraid I don’t have references for this as I’m not at work.

There must be a significant pension saving as all the smokers die younger.

Has anyone mentioned alcohol yet? Huge costs to society that I bet is not covered by tax.

And then there is the car – where we know motoring taxes do not over the total costs to society of motoring – from damage to buildings to death and ill health from disease to deaths in collisions.

Ban alcohol and cars and we will have plenty of money for the smokers

And then there is the car – where we know motoring taxes do not over the total costs to society of motoring – from damage to buildings to death and ill health from disease to deaths in collisions.

Do we, again I doubt this and reckon motorist pay more than their fair share.

Queef!

br – if you count total costs against the motoring taxes there is a huge shortfall.

Cost of enforcing of road law

cost of pollution damage to building and the environment

cost of illhealth from the pollution

Cost of the healthcare for the injured and killed

Coast of provision of the roads

Costs of streetlighting major roads

Then there is all the uncostable stuff – they eyesore that is yellow lines and road signs and so on

Smoke a pipe as it’s healthier.
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br – if you count total costs against the motoring taxes there is a huge shortfall.

And on the other side of the ledger:

Benefit of getting where you want to go
Benefit of goods leaving factories
Benefit of goods getting into the shops
Benefit of an ambulance to take you to hospital
etc

And of course the sheer income derived from road transport.

Benefit of goods leaving factories
Benefit of goods getting into the shops
Benefit of an ambulance to take you to hospital

None of which are done by car. 🙄

Benefit of getting where you want to go

Cheaper quicker easier by bike / public transport

And of course the sheer income derived from road transport.

I think you will find it is simply a cost, road transport does not produce anything and again is not done in cars 🙄

and except of course that cars are brilliant.