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If people want to be helped to stop smoking then fair enough,there are GP practices and help all over for people to try to stop if they want that assistance.
If smoking is so bad then why doesn't some Govt make it illegal to buy,sell or smoke cigarettes.

As with alocohol, people make choices in their lives.The strong point was that as was said, 12 billion lost in revenue will leave a massive hole in the treasury's income from duty, nothing was said about not helping people stop smoking legally if that is what they want to do.

No one forces people to smoke and if they do then they shouldn't in my view be forced not to if they don't want to stop.
The strong point was that if everyone stopped smoking a massive hole would be left as to the Govt's income, that is a fact and those funds would have to be found elsewhere,I doubt the Govt would then look for all the smokers to try to get them to smoke again if it happened.

Of course help should be there for smokers to stop if they want to and it already is in fact.