Why are nicotine patches so damn expensive ?

[Jakes Daddy]

If you're going to buy them and not smoke them, then buy them in bulk from Euroland.

Then you can hang about your local at Xmas in a Ben Sherman shirt and gold hooped earing and flog them off to the punters for profit.


Meridian in "Plan B" mode

MrsGoof - get him, he's the tax avoider, not me

[BobTheCrate]

Why should hard working families, i.e. the tax payer, subsidise their little sweeties and other voodoo paraphernalia.

The smoker would say they're not being subsidised because of the huge tax & duty smokers already pay.

It's a fair point often deliberately overlooked.

[YNWA]

£7 a box

I can get them for £7 a box ...let me know if interested.

[MrsGoof]

OK, so let me get this straight - I should continue to buy ciggies thus contributing to the tax system - and after all, its only fair that I pay my way.
But then I shouldn't actually smoke them as its bad for me and everyone around me, and it makes me smelly.
And by not smoking them, I further help the system by being less likely to require the services and resources of the NHS
And by not smoking, I further aid this great nation of ours by not littering the place with discarded fag packets and dog ends (not that I do that currently I might add)
And by continuing to buy them (but not smoke them) I help the economy by not making loads of people in ciggie factories redundant.

Yes, I can see that is a sound plan. I'll continue to buy ciggies, but not smoke them. And as Jake and Jakes Mummy are my dependants I should do the responsible thing and buy ciggies for them to not smoke, thus making their contributions to the good of this wonderful nation for them.

I'm glad your thinking clearly.
You may need to hire an aircraft hanger to keep them in.

[The Lone Gunman]

I'm glad your thinking clearly.
You may need to hire an aircraft hanger to keep them in.

He shouldnt keep them, he should give them to those who are too poor to buy them so they can sell them on the black market to supplement their income support.

[Churchill]

I'm glad yourthinking clearly.
You may need to hire an aircraft hanger to keep them in.

you're
you are
your thinking is clear

[Jakes Daddy]

So Brownstuff taxes the hell out of tobacco products (its for our own good you know) - surely he's not got some ridiculous tax on products to help you give up ??

Hmmmm, after a quick Google session it might suggest he is !!
YNWA has offered them for £7 a box; and there are loads of places on the net that are doing them for a similar price. Interestingly all these places are abroad .... hmmmm ...... buy in the UK for lots of money, buy abroad for half price ...... hmmmm, draw your own conclusions .....

[MrsGoof]

He shouldnt keep them, he should give them to those who are too poor to buy them so they can sell them on the black market to supplement their income support.

I disagree.
Selling them to those who can't afford them would only reduce the petty crime that would allow those poorer people to purchase them legitimately and thus help Gordo.

Selling them to supplement their income support, is a total NO NO.. If there was a reasonable way to suppliment their income support then there may be less people dependant upon the labour government thus ebabaling a new government at the next elections.

That would not do

G & T

[MrsGoof]

you're
you are
your thinking is clear

thats what you get for nealry making the CSE stream a skool

[Spartacus]

Selling them to supplement their income support, is a total NO NO.. If there was a reasonable way to suppliment their income support then there may be less people dependant upon the labour government thus ebabaling a new government at the next elections.

What does "ebabaling" mean?