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Smoking
After seeing a comment in another thread I decided to letof some steam.
"You could perhaps get a weekly report printed along the lines of I'm starting smoking campaign"
It seems that when centeral govenment gets one of its bright ideas then all seem to jump on the band wagon and smoking is again the target. Yes some people smoke though some want to stop but to have it pushed down their throughts until they cchoak on it is not right. The govenment says they can be a burden on the NHS but those same people seem to forget an important point. People who smoke are paying tax on their cigerettes.
These people are also invariably working and pay their tax and national insurance as well and to my way of thinking have already payed for their NHS treatment. This line raken by the govenment about smoking in pubs has a fair point to make but because of the money made off smokers you would think there could be a compromise made. There are drains on the system from other habits such as drugs and alcohol and yet these are not under the same pressure. Why they relaxed the law slightly for cannabis.
If all smokers wanted to be left in piece then they should stop for a day ore two and hurt the chancellor in his purse. There would be such a drop in the takings from tax he would give birth to a blue whale. Another possible issue from this is were would the money for the exchequer come from if smokers were forced to quit?
The chances are that tax for everybody would rise and then who could govenment blame? They push the ciggies issue yet there is more help for addicts of certain drugs and those with a booze problem example being the ex footy player. This is "alledgedly" a free country so if people want to smoke then let them if they want to quit help them but remember how much is paid in tax of ciggies and were the lost revenue uptake will come from.
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