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Originally Posted by mobertol
Whilst the sale of tobacco was always thought to be a lucrative source of Tax revenue for the UK - studies over the last 10 years have shown that the cost to the nation in health care of patients with disease related to smoking out-weighs this revenue (I read somewhere that the discrepancy is something in the tune of 6.5p per cigarette -possibly on the "ASH" site)
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Mobertol, so if you don't smoke you will live forever, never be ill and need no health care? At least the smokers are contributiong about 23.5 pence per cigarette towards their eventual care, before they die at a reasonable age!
Think what an expensive burden the non-smokers impose on the state by living to a ripe old age!
If it wasn't a lucrative source of tax some government would have made it illegal or taxed it so high almost no-one could afford it.