AccyD wrote:
bloodline wrote:
When people don't smoke they have more money, and spend more on luxuries. Which boost the Economy. And the reduced strain on the health service all compensate.
No item is taxed as much as cigarettes, so although expenditure may remain the same actual tax revenues will fall (even if you take account of higher profits).
The reduced strain on the NHS will harm non-smokers, at present they are subsidised by smokers, things will only get worse if smoking is banned.
Less cancer specialists, less equipment......sound like a world you would like to live in??
No me neither...
P.S. Hope you didn't take offence at the Miss Bloodline reference - I was only joking.
No offence taken :-) (I would hope you don't take offence at my counter argument).
Anyway, if more moeny was spent on proper items, we get a stronger ecomony. When you buy something that requires 2 people to make rather than a cigarette that requires approx no people to make, then it creates jobs.
You see cigarette tax is a false economy, and it is unsustaiable.
As for the NHS, that will remain the same regardless. If we have to pay more tax that won't matter since we will ahve more money in our pockets due to the strong economy... you see cigarettes really are a bad thing.
