do you think tobacco products will ever be totally banned? ( Archived) (62)

Revenue they lose on tabacco is nominal and easy to recover other ways ....

there already fleesing us now in other things and it doesnt stop there ....It will continue ...

Tax revenue from tobacco in 2009/10 amounted to an estimated £10.5 billion – £8.8 billion in excise duty plus £1.7 billion in VAT.
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Hell of a lot to try and recover elsewhere. People won't accept that. Same as now petrol is rising, they are starting to move away from larger cars, thus killing off the larger car market.

It will always have a knock on effect, no matter what's done. Average wages will not allow for a non smoker to be able to live.

I totaly agree with you ,read my previous posts on here ,,

BUT ,, say an average smoker spends £30 a week on ciggies ,,iff they get sqeezed financialy in other areas ,they will have to make a choice ,, drive there car to work and pay for petrol or sit in the house smoking ..A simple choice iff you need to work to pay the mortgage ....O and pay the interest rates on an overdraft from Christmas 2 yrs ago ....O and not forgetting there 2 weeks sitting on a beach looking like a fried lobster and coming home with food poisening ....Sorry ,,going on one there ....

I hope your rite and people wont accept it ,,but thats not what history has shown me ....

We are controlled ,,, and the Joe Public are there own worst enemies ....Were a nation of grumblers who do nothing to fight our corner ....Were a push over ...And all our governments have exploited that situation .... No offense to you iether ...

Me im a different kettle of fish ,, but there is a price to pay ,,nothing comes for nothing ...

Sorry to go on ...

Have a nice day

There is no way smoking will be completely banned but I believe that at some point, there won't be enough smokers around to keep the tobacco companies going.

The cost of cigarettes will drive people away from them. When you buy a pack of cigarettes, you are paying more taxes than the cost of them.

I almost think that the governments, state and federal are at work forcing people to quit smoking by taxing the hell out of smoking products.

Ive just been out before and bought a friend who cant go out 100 cigarettes to deliver after ,, cost was £38 for 5 packs ..

Our national minimum wage in the U.K is £5 an hour ...

Ciggies wont be banned ,but the makers wont make any iff people cant buy ........

Here in New Hampshire, at most convenience stores cigarettes are almost $7.00 a pack of 20. I tend to go to the grocery store where they are $5.59 a pack.

One of my bosses can't stand the smell of cigarettes. He has a sister who works in a nursing home where they have the smokers using the electronic cigarettes. He's pretty much has me talked into trying them.
They are around $60 for the electronic cigarette while the cartridges are about $3. Each cartridge is equal to two packs I believe. The cartridges come in different nicotine "sizes" and can be dialed to give you the amount you want and eventually get to a point where you can give them up. With these, there is no smoke by-product and can be used inside where smoking has been banned.
My bosses told me that if I am willing, they will pay for the kit. I think that after over 35 years of smoking, it's time I tried something other than going cold turkey. Because of the heart, I can't use the patch or the gum

ah don't think so

I doubt it. Demand will just continue to fall and stockists will become fewer and fewer as a result of the modern infatuation with lingering around until age 100.

They should legalize pot instead

Let's see where do we start.

Dangerous harmful products.
Cars Only when in motion
Flouride
Walking People fall and get run over by # 1
Rock climbing Ropes can break, You can fall
The Mentally Unstable You know this one just think back about a week

The list goes on and on.

Regulating what people can do to them selves is just stupid. Let Darwin handle it.

Yep. treat it just like they do booze.

Exactly! It would more than make up for any shortfalls in taxes...Probably pay the national debt etc. Its being tabled in the House of Commons again so we will see what happens this time...

I'm not so bad after all. Just set in my ways. Never did the stuff but also not my place to tell others what they can or cannot do. Have a blast down there.

Thanks...The point Im trying to make is I dont understand why the Gov cries the blues over money and yet has a ready HUGE stream of income under thier noses?? As it stands its in a kind of grey area anyway in both Canada and Mexico so why not take the final step?

Yes but the ones that think they know better and have to tell us how to act don't see that all they see is I can force you to do something. I smoke and I may quit but for now It's my choice either way. It's not for some regulation happy group to force change onto others.