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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Cost of treating smoking related illnesses- £3 billion.
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So you think that the only cost to the economy from smoking (or drinking, or drugs, or whatever) is the NHS treatment cost?
I know of at one person who loses one full working hour per day to smoke breaks. And her employer can't dock her pay because that would be "discrimination".
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I don't get the electric cigarette ban...
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I'm all for it. Assuming that the user is exhaling just water vapour with nicotine in it (and no other chemicals), surely that means that anyone in the same room is breathing air laced with nicotine - however minute...?