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Re: Fags out.
I think where possible pubs should have separate no-smoking areas.
Whoever thinks it works in Dublin obviously hasn't read about the boatloads of Micks coming over to Holyhead for their night out! - or the publican who has bought a double decker bus and parked it outside the pub for his smoking clientele.
Do tell me though, if smoking is banned generally and everyone gives up, how we work out the economics -
There are reckoned to be 12 million smokers in this country.
The tax on 20 cigarettes is over £2 (yes, chokes you, dunnit)
If each smoker smokes, on average, 20 cigarettes a day .....
that is £2 x 12 million every day going into the Exchequer from smokers, i.e. £24 MILLION A DAY.
That makes £8,736,000,000 every year, by my reckoning.
Where is Gordon Brown going to find that, then?
****** standing outside, everyone round my place, bring a few cans, or we'll club together and buy a barrel! - non-smokers who prefer to can drink in the back bedroom.
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