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    #11
    Originally posted by Charles Foster Kane View Post
    The price of cigarettes should be raised by 1000% and all non-smokers should get a share of the extra cash.
    http://www.the-tma.org.uk/page.aspx?page_id=10

    The tax raised through the sale of tobacco products continues to be a major source of revenue for the Government, contributing around £10 billion annually. This is, according to the Treasury, equivalent to almost 3 pence on the basic rate of income tax or 12 pence on the top rate of income tax.

    You already do.
    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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      #12
      Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
      http://www.the-tma.org.uk/page.aspx?page_id=10

      The tax raised through the sale of tobacco products continues to be a major source of revenue for the Government, contributing around £10 billion annually. This is, according to the Treasury, equivalent to almost 3 pence on the basic rate of income tax or 12 pence on the top rate of income tax.

      You already do.
      I don't personally.
      Last edited by Charles Foster Kane; 13 November 2007, 14:51.

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        #13
        Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
        You already do.
        But the cost to NHS is pretty high too, though on a balance it is possible now that smokers pay more than they cost to the Govt, though it has to be said that smokers give cancer to other people who don't actively smoke, so smokers can continue smoking but somewhere far away.

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          #14
          Smokers are jokers.

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            #15
            Would you support the current drive to boost tax on alcohol? Where does it stop? The government would love it if everyone was so subservient.
            Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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              #16
              Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
              Would you support the current drive to boost tax on alcohol? Where does it stop? The government would love it if everyone was so subservient.
              If everytime I drank some beer or wine, people in my vicinity passively drank a small amount too, then yes I would support it.

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                #17
                the whole thing looks like crap, the council have said that there is no such limit and the bar owner doesn't wish to be named.
                Coffee's for closers

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                  #18
                  Smokers are a damned nuisance and should all be made to stay in their homes.

                  Filthy, smelly, disgusting weed.
                  Last edited by SallyAnne; 13 November 2007, 15:20.
                  The pope is a tard.

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                    #19
                    And be told they smell bad.

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                      #20
                      Who else can we pick on after the smokers? think of some other self inflicted burden on the NHS....
                      The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

                      But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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