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"They will save money from the reduced numbers of chronically ill people with smoking related health problems, if price affects people's decision to give up smoking. This is the reason the government will not ban smoking because smoking related illnesses cost about 2 billion pounds a year to treat, However the tax revenue the government gets from smokers is nearly 8 billion." Ah, I didn't realise the figures were that wide apart | |||
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"I'm a smoker and have been for yrs since I was 12/13. I can get 50g of golden Virginia for £10, but I've run out till i go get my next lot for a month, so I went to the shop to buy some and it was £12 for 30g and £19 for 50g I almost fell over lol and I got the cheapest one and a packet of fags that cost £9 I can get for a fiver a packet lol the government are over taxing the wrong thing, soon there will be no petrol cars, so where they gonna get there cash from." Surely the higher the tax the better, it hopefully reduces the amount people smoke and perhaps deters young adults from buying them. And if none of the above is true, at least it brings in some extra tax to offset the burden on the NHS. | |||
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"They will save money from the reduced numbers of chronically ill people with smoking related health problems, if price affects people's decision to give up smoking. This is the reason the government will not ban smoking because smoking related illnesses cost about 2 billion pounds a year to treat, However the tax revenue the government gets from smokers is nearly 8 billion. Ah, I didn't realise the figures were that wide apart " I haven't looked at the statistics in the last year but it definitely was that it could be slightly different but the diffrence is huge. | |||
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"They will save money from the reduced numbers of chronically ill people with smoking related health problems, if price affects people's decision to give up smoking. This is the reason the government will not ban smoking because smoking related illnesses cost about 2 billion pounds a year to treat, However the tax revenue the government gets from smokers is nearly 8 billion. Ah, I didn't realise the figures were that wide apart I haven't looked at the statistics in the last year but it definitely was that it could be slightly different but the diffrence is huge. " Home / Media and News / Press Releases / True cost of smoking revealed in advance of World No Tobacco Day True cost of smoking revealed in advance of World No Tobacco Day 30 May 2018 print 30 May 2018 New data published for World No Tobacco Day 31st May, by Action on Smoking Health shows that smoking costs communities in England £12.6 billion a year [1]. The figures show the additional pressure that smoking is putting on the NHS and social care services including annual costs of £2.5 billion to the NHS, and over £760 million to local authorities from smoking-related social care needs [1]. Local authorities can use an easily accessible web tool to break the data down to local level so they can see the impact on their communities [1]. Smoking remains the largest cause of preventable death in England. However, a 2016 audit found that more than 1 in 4 hospital patients were not asked if they smoke and 50% of frontline staff are not given routine smoking cessation training [2]. | |||
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"They will save money from the reduced numbers of chronically ill people with smoking related health problems, if price affects people's decision to give up smoking. This is the reason the government will not ban smoking because smoking related illnesses cost about 2 billion pounds a year to treat, However the tax revenue the government gets from smokers is nearly 8 billion. Ah, I didn't realise the figures were that wide apart I haven't looked at the statistics in the last year but it definitely was that it could be slightly different but the diffrence is huge. Home / Media and News / Press Releases / True cost of smoking revealed in advance of World No Tobacco Day True cost of smoking revealed in advance of World No Tobacco Day 30 May 2018 print 30 May 2018 New data published for World No Tobacco Day 31st May, by Action on Smoking Health shows that smoking costs communities in England £12.6 billion a year [1]. The figures show the additional pressure that smoking is putting on the NHS and social care services including annual costs of £2.5 billion to the NHS, and over £760 million to local authorities from smoking-related social care needs [1]. Local authorities can use an easily accessible web tool to break the data down to local level so they can see the impact on their communities [1]. Smoking remains the largest cause of preventable death in England. However, a 2016 audit found that more than 1 in 4 hospital patients were not asked if they smoke and 50% of frontline staff are not given routine smoking cessation training [2]." S0 my figures aren't far off and also you have accounted for 3.1 is billion. So how does it cost communities a further 9.5 billion? There is a reason the government has never banned smoking because they could if they wanted to it's because they make too much money in taxes. | |||
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"They will save money from the reduced numbers of chronically ill people with smoking related health problems, if price affects people's decision to give up smoking. This is the reason the government will not ban smoking because smoking related illnesses cost about 2 billion pounds a year to treat, However the tax revenue the government gets from smokers is nearly 8 billion. Ah, I didn't realise the figures were that wide apart I haven't looked at the statistics in the last year but it definitely was that it could be slightly different but the diffrence is huge. Home / Media and News / Press Releases / True cost of smoking revealed in advance of World No Tobacco Day True cost of smoking revealed in advance of World No Tobacco Day 30 May 2018 print 30 May 2018 New data published for World No Tobacco Day 31st May, by Action on Smoking Health shows that smoking costs communities in England £12.6 billion a year [1]. The figures show the additional pressure that smoking is putting on the NHS and social care services including annual costs of £2.5 billion to the NHS, and over £760 million to local authorities from smoking-related social care needs [1]. Local authorities can use an easily accessible web tool to break the data down to local level so they can see the impact on their communities [1]. Smoking remains the largest cause of preventable death in England. However, a 2016 audit found that more than 1 in 4 hospital patients were not asked if they smoke and 50% of frontline staff are not given routine smoking cessation training [2]. S0 my figures aren't far off and also you have accounted for 3.1 is billion. So how does it cost communities a further 9.5 billion? There is a reason the government has never banned smoking because they could if they wanted to it's because they make too much money in taxes." There's already a huge black market I'm sure, but to ban smoking would explode it, as did prohibition in 20's America. | |||
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"I'm surprised by the posts all gd and affirming, I'm also the government hasn't done the same to food to stop the obesity crisis. But the crazy thing is most who are overweight do have a thyroid gland problem, and not down to eating all the pies." Food is necessary for survival. Smoking is not. As someone with a thyroid condition, *facepalm* | |||
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"I don't understand. Stop smoking it's manky " es, quit, if you want to smoke then don't complain about the price. Hope you're not one of this people that just flick the end onto the path when you've finished. | |||
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"Death and taxes; almost anything can be taxed so generating a new revenue stream is never going to be a problem. In case you're worried about HM coffers. I'm more interested in the social health aspect. High taxing is one way to tackle this obviously - price it beyond most people's reach. Or, at least, those unwilling to use the black market. The longer-term and better approach is of course - as with most societal ills - better education so that people make better choices and fewer instances of drug addiction occur. This is a fact borne out by innumerable data. And that is what smokers are: drug addicts (really, let's not quibble here - yes there will be a few exceptions, those who do not develop a strong addiction to nicotine but perhaps do still habituate it (it's irrelevant really since the multiple health problems that arise directly from it don't give a shit whether or not you consider yourself a "social smoker" or anything else, they fuck you and other people up, just the same). Largely because smoking - along with alcohol consumption - is/are socially acceptable (if less so these days, an indication that that education is working!) it's not generally referred to in those terms but it is exactly that - a drug addiction. It does not carry the same stigma but I do think it would help a little if it was framed in this way. Call the thing what it is - if that's enough to shift a few people's perspective away from it as a "lifestyle choice" then all to the good. Many of the treatment programs do of course recognise it as such and so use the same approaches as those used with other 'harder' (if less widely-damaging due to their less frequent occurrence) substances. It all begins with education. " Very good | |||
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"Death and taxes; almost anything can be taxed so generating a new revenue stream is never going to be a problem. In case you're worried about HM coffers. I'm more interested in the social health aspect. High taxing is one way to tackle this obviously - price it beyond most people's reach. Or, at least, those unwilling to use the black market. The longer-term and better approach is of course - as with most societal ills - better education so that people make better choices and fewer instances of drug addiction occur. This is a fact borne out by innumerable data. And that is what smokers are: drug addicts (really, let's not quibble here - yes there will be a few exceptions, those who do not develop a strong addiction to nicotine but perhaps do still habituate it (it's irrelevant really since the multiple health problems that arise directly from it don't give a shit whether or not you consider yourself a "social smoker" or anything else, they fuck you and other people up, just the same). Largely because smoking - along with alcohol consumption - is/are socially acceptable (if less so these days, an indication that that education is working!) it's not generally referred to in those terms but it is exactly that - a drug addiction. It does not carry the same stigma but I do think it would help a little if it was framed in this way. Call the thing what it is - if that's enough to shift a few people's perspective away from it as a "lifestyle choice" then all to the good. Many of the treatment programs do of course recognise it as such and so use the same approaches as those used with other 'harder' (if less widely-damaging due to their less frequent occurrence) substances. It all begins with education. Very good" Thanks you. | |||
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"I remember an episode of Yes Prime Minister where this is being argued and Sir Humphrey points out that with smokers generally dying earlier, they save the government money in pensions, etc.... " No idea if that argument stands but "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" were such good series'! The scripts were so good! | |||
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"I remember an episode of Yes Prime Minister where this is being argued and Sir Humphrey points out that with smokers generally dying earlier, they save the government money in pensions, etc.... " . And dementia is the biggest cost to the NHS sooooo as smokers die younger, less pension reduced old people, less dementia win/win. In fact one could say. “Smoke a fag, protect the nhs” Waiting for my “look how much money we have saved” yacht from the government. Woohoo | |||
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"I remember an episode of Yes Prime Minister where this is being argued and Sir Humphrey points out that with smokers generally dying earlier, they save the government money in pensions, etc.... No idea if that argument stands but "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" were such good series'! The scripts were so good!" And amazing how they are still relevant 45 years on | |||
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"They will save money from the reduced numbers of chronically ill people with smoking related health problems, if price affects people's decision to give up smoking. " I've never understood this argument. If we stopped everyone smoking its not as though these people wouldn't die. I'm very sceptical of figures around the cost of smoking, while it is presumably easy to work out that certain diseases are more common than others in smokers and therefore attribute that percentage of their treatment cost to smoking but that is only half the picture. A true comparison would look at the average lifetime cost to the the government of smokers verses non smokers. This should take into account the cost of health care (cancers/dementia/care homes etc), pension payouts and tax income. Even without the latter, I can see no reason why paying for say lung cancer treatment for a 65 year old works out more expensive than paying pension for 30 years followed by 2 years of assisted living and then 24 hour care of a dementia patientwho dies aged 95. The only real argument against smoking is the unpleasantness and real danger for those who don't smoke but are forced to put up with others that do. Aside from that, we're all going to die one way or another, I really can't see the difference between choosing the 13% chance of dying decades earlier (or whatever it is) from smoking and choosing to ride a push bike on the road or a motorbike say, both of which carry significant risk of early death. Mr | |||
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"The government won’t ban smoking because that would make it an illegal substance. Governments cannot control the use of illegal substances. Taking away a drug that tends not to cause social problems (although obvious health care ones) would then push smokers into the illegal substance market. Pushing people into the illegal substance market is not a good idea mmm’kay. They might choose something else.... Costs associated with smoking are dwarfed by costs associated with alcohol and alcohol related problems. Go in a hospital a&e ward on a Friday night (non Covid) and see how many people are there for incidents directly related to alcohol consumption. More people than are queuing up with black lung. If any legal substance was to be banned for the cost it has to the nhs, the social problems it causes, and the misery it generates. Then alcohol should and would be the first target. " | |||
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"Maybe they're going to tax stupid people. That'll give the UK economy and much needed boost. " How would you define them though? You’d have to have some kind of stupid scale with different bands of stupidity. A bit like council tax. | |||
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"Maybe they're going to tax stupid people. That'll give the UK economy and much needed boost. How would you define them though? You’d have to have some kind of stupid scale with different bands of stupidity. A bit like council tax. " Maybe start with a big, black, locked box with "put your unwanted money in here" written on it. | |||
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"Maybe they're going to tax stupid people. That'll give the UK economy and much needed boost. How would you define them though? You’d have to have some kind of stupid scale with different bands of stupidity. A bit like council tax. Maybe start with a big, black, locked box with "put your unwanted money in here" written on it. " If I put my money in there I won’t have enough to buy my cigarettes and alcohol. Seems a bit stupid to me. You go for it though, it might work. | |||
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"Anyone got a light?" What's a litre?........ It's what a Jawdee lights his fag with. | |||
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"I don't understand. Stop smoking it's manky es, quit, if you want to smoke then don't complain about the price. Hope you're not one of this people that just flick the end onto the path when you've finished." Are there any smokers who gather up their butts and take them home? How many years does a butt take to decompose? | |||
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"I don't understand. Stop smoking it's manky es, quit, if you want to smoke then don't complain about the price. Hope you're not one of this people that just flick the end onto the path when you've finished. Are there any smokers who gather up their butts and take them home? How many years does a butt take to decompose? " 18month to 10 years thank feck for Google you would think they would find a different material to degrade quicker | |||
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"I don't understand. Stop smoking it's manky es, quit, if you want to smoke then don't complain about the price. Hope you're not one of this people that just flick the end onto the path when you've finished. Are there any smokers who gather up their butts and take them home? How many years does a butt take to decompose? 18month to 10 years thank feck for Google you would think they would find a different material to degrade quicker " Wow. | |||
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"The government won’t ban smoking because that would make it an illegal substance. Governments cannot control the use of illegal substances. Taking away a drug that tends not to cause social problems (although obvious health care ones) would then push smokers into the illegal substance market. Pushing people into the illegal substance market is not a good idea mmm’kay. They might choose something else.... Costs associated with smoking are dwarfed by costs associated with alcohol and alcohol related problems. Go in a hospital a&e ward on a Friday night (non Covid) and see how many people are there for incidents directly related to alcohol consumption. More people than are queuing up with black lung. If any legal substance was to be banned for the cost it has to the nhs, the social problems it causes, and the misery it generates. Then alcohol should and would be the first target. " I agree with your statement regarding the much greater damage caused by alcohol consumption. The single most damaging drug in society is alcohol, largely because of the peripheral damage it causes in society. As you note, it's frequently not the drinker who suffers the brunt of it. This is also something borne out by data, so whether or not you agree with it is irrelevant, the evidence doesn't care. Prof. David Nutt carried out work and the evidence led him and his team to that conclusion. (You might remember him as the 'Drugs Czar' in Blair's government. They employed him because if his expertise and then, when he made recommendations based on the evidence he gathered but which didn't tally with what they wanted to say, they fired him. Yep, some real progressive thinking there, Blair...FFS.) | |||
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"I'm a smoker and have been for yrs since I was 12/13. I can get 50g of golden Virginia for £10, but I've run out till i go get my next lot for a month, so I went to the shop to buy some and it was £12 for 30g and £19 for 50g I almost fell over lol and I got the cheapest one and a packet of fags that cost £9 I can get for a fiver a packet lol the government are over taxing the wrong thing, soon there will be no petrol cars, so where they gonna get there cash from." I quit for 17 years but when I started working in Africa I started again. I smoke Marlboro touch , less smoke, less smell , they are around £3.80 for 20 over there or a £5 over here from the Syrian car wash. They sell your tobacco too it’s £5 for 40g for some reason the EU bags are 40 not 50g | |||
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