Beat the addiction of alcohol and tobacco taxes
Governments rely on tax from products (that they choose to permit) which are bad for you, and won’t give them up unless the EU taxes the taxers.
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Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t. Govt is at the whim of rich lobbyists that won’t give up on the dreaded weed gravy train. Good idea though, not gonna happen.
Evidence suggests that taxes can stop people smoking – but tobacco firms play price games such as cutting the number of cigarettes in a pack to disguise increasing prices
Smokers pay more than they spend in the NHS. Put that in your pipe and have a good ole drag!
“The government takes in a total of about £9.5 billion in tobacco duties, and the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association has told us another £2.5 billion goes to the Treasury in VAT. So the Treasury is taking in about £12 billion directly from tobacco sales.”
Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t. Govt is at the whim of rich lobbyists that won’t give up on the dreaded weed gravy train. Good idea though, not gonna happen.