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Dont forget income tax N.I and stealth taxes.

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Less money spent on 1/5 hospitalised with smoking related disease.

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you mean i am paying for a big black airoplane as well :mad:

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actualy the cost of treating smoking related ilnesses is a lot less than the revenue generated from the tax on cigrettes

the government makes quite a lot of proffit from smokers

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The only way to have a safe journey. If you are chase for smoking in the boozer you jump in one and woosh gone like a f##t on fire. :D

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its just a pity they dont come down as hard on drug addicts , them sods dont even pay tax on their stuff :mad:

and they cause more harm to people than smoking ever will

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Hehehe, if 1/5 people are hospitalised with smoking related diseases, what are the other 4/5 hospitalised with???

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Drink problems

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Nearly every pub licensee I know smokes!

This law is farcical, not to say that it's riding roughshod over human rights. The government has not yet made tobacco an illegal substance and, due to the amount of revenue it generates, they are unlikely to do so. They are, therefore, placing a ban on a legal activity.

Without commenting on the effects of "passive" smoking, a subject I believe is vastly overstated, I find the accepted medical stance that "too many people die/use up NHS Resources through smoking-related illness" nonsensical. Are we to understand that all non-smokers are presumed disease-free? I haven't noticed an absence of death amongst the non-smoking population.

The logical, fair and reasonable solution would have been a law which enforced non-smoking areas in all licenced establishments. I speak as a former smoker who gave up for purely economic reasons.

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most cancers arnt even smoking related

mine wasnt :p

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Smoker's in my experience, will always say , what about this or that? Always looking for something more harmful or disgusting to offer as prevarication. I am totally surprised pollution has not been used yet. Smoking bans are happening worldwide. It is not just here that the dangers of passive smoking are being, at long last, dealt with.


Oh, Roy Castle.

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If passive smoking is bad then how come there is ajust as big or not bigger percentage of non smokers with chest illnesses here in Grangemouth? Does this mean I could fight to have the refinery and chemical industries banned from here because of this?

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Deaths caused by smoking are five times higher than the 22,833 deaths arising from: traffic accidents (3,439); poisoning and overdose (881); alcoholic liver disease (5,121); other accidental deaths (8,579); murder and manslaughter (513); suicide (4,066); and HIV infection (234) in the UK during 2002. 7 World-wide, almost 5 million die prematurely each year as a result of smoking. Based on current trends, this will rise to 10 million within 20 years. [8]

Curtesy ASH

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non smokers are the lucky ones , not only do i have to breath in my own smoke but i have to breath in everyone elses and i might add other peoples smoke is not usualy the same brand as mine which can cause me throat irritation :mad:

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I always thought you were very intelligent lettie, the answer is obviously non-smoking related diseases :D