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19-03-2014, 09:19 PM | #26 | ||
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Smokers and 'fatties' (and alcoholics I believe) cost the taxpayer thousands less than 'healthy people do in a lifetime. But yeah, the price of fags is ridiculous. All they are doing is pushing more people towards illegal ciggies. I have been getting mine (well, gavs atm) from the backy man for about 10 years now, as I thought the price was taking the piss even back then
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19-03-2014, 09:22 PM | #27 | ||
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I sort of agree: whacking a tax on sugar (and sweetener, let's not have them getting around it by using more and more cancspartame) would surely rake in an absolute fortune. And it's a "fairer" tax than most - if you don't want to pay it, buy fresh ingredients and cook / eat properly. They could also whack a tax on anything that features ingredients with more than four syllables. I'm looking at YOU, monosodium glutamate. And of course, a 50% tax on anything with the word "hydrogenated" in it. Rake in junk food cash, save the NHS a fortune. A flawless plan. |
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19-03-2014, 09:27 PM | #28 | ||
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Cigarettes are the best one for the government coffers, really. It tends not to cause long-running ongoing health issues, you just smoke for several decades and then drop of sudden aggressive lung cancer in a matter of months, ten to twenty years prematurely. Cha-ching, NHS win. |
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19-03-2014, 09:28 PM | #29 | |||
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19-03-2014, 09:39 PM | #30 | |||
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funny i do the same and i bought some in the shop i thought they were joking when the girl said the price. it was only a year since i last bought and the price doubled and the content halved lol
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