UK Budget : 37p on Fags from 6PM
 

InOne
get to the store before 6PM

Are you a smoker, Arista?

Thank crunchie I don't smoke. Robbing swines.

No it Stinks


Even 2nd hand CD's can have the Smokers Stinch on them

No it helps Stop Smokers
Less Deaths

How much to a 20 pack cost in the UK?

They're just putting them up every single budget now :bored:

Around £6, depends on the brand though

saying that tho L&B 20 pack will be > £7 now

My mum smokes Benson and Hedges, they vary atm from between £6.15 to £6.45 depending on where she buys them.

Yes and from 6PM today
£6.37

Wowee! i had no idea they were so expensive...When i quit they were £4.85 i think it was 2002-3

Marlboro's can be as much as £7/7.50 now too

Pretty soon everyone will give up smoking and the £11 billion or so they raise in tax on tobacco will have to come from somewhere...

Benson and Hedges are currently £7 for a pack of 20.

You are most wise

Indeed, and for good reason. They are a negative externality and therefore the government tax the production to lower consumption. The inelastic nature of their demand is what causes the price to fall mainly on the consumer rather than the producer.

Always looking on the bright side livia, hopefully the NHS will save something by not having to treat as many patients for lung cancer and other smoking related illnesses?

Well the inelastic demand means they won't lower consumption that much, although it might for some who are really struggling financially. I understand why they do it but people are still entitled to moan about it :p

Its ok. They will just tempt more people to buy ones from abroad.

I still only pay £3.20 for my fags so I'm fine :)

Not nearly as much as they would lose if everyone did stop smoking...

Always looking on the bright side? Are you insinuating that I am a misery?

Well lets hope they stick a massive tax on sugary, fatty foods sometime soon then, because obesity is overtaking smoking as the biggest drain on the NHS.

Im not insinuating anything. whatever they lose on fags they can stick on something else can't they?
How about instead of scrapping the 50p tax rate for those earning above £150,000 they raise it?...
Or scrap large organisations based in th UK using offshore accounts to avoid tax?

Spiffing

it wont matter if they put them up to 20 pounds a packet, smoking is an addiction,

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Looks like I'll have to start getting from abroad. Have they put beer in pubs up too?

or you could just quit :joker:

"the governemnt will shortly publish its strategy on alcohol pricing but today there are no further changes to the rate".

They will be soon no doubt, dont remember hearing much about that though...just the usual 'binge drinking is bad' stuff. You know, because people cant go buy a crate from the supermarket for next to nothing and binge drink in the house then cause trouble :joker:

No change on alcohol...tories love a few quiet drinks in the bar....;)

You should maybe read your post again and see if you can think why I would think you were insinuating something. The clue, you see, was in the words.

Yeah, they could raise the top rate of tax and make it impossible for rich people and banks to operate in the UK. Then they can all move to another country, taking their business with them. There'd be no one left to invest in anything or employ anyone... and we can all come and work for the local authority.

Or... they could make overweight people pay for their own obesity-related illnesses through taxing their food, the same way that they've taxed the smoker almost out of existance.

Yes also Head Butting Labour MPs

On this note, is it true that there is no smoking ban in the house of commons bar?

Someone was saying this to me at the weekend when ranting on about having to go outside for a fag :S

let.them.leave.

Arista whats wrong, you are particularly reactionary today?
Here...:hug:....better?

Knock it off Kizzy.

Legally, there is no smoking ban in Parliament. But... everyone agreed at the time the ban came in the rest of the country that there will be no smoking anywhere in the Houses of Parliament. There are smoking areas, but they are all outside the building.

It will all be subsidised for them anyway...

Ah k thanks. Was just wondering because people have a tendency to make things up when they get pissed off about something :joker:

Well no need to worry the 50p tax rate is now 45p and corporate tax is down from 24% to 22%.
So low income families cant afford to buy a home, save, and you are suggesting taxing food too now?

I don't smoke too much anyway lol I'd be getting worried if I was on like 20 a day or something