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Thread #101817   Message #2090779
Posted By: George Papavgeris
30-Jun-07 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: 42 days to no smoking (UK)
Subject: RE: 42 days to no smoking (UK)
That WOuldn't work, Rog. Currently the tax from cigarettes etc is about 9 billion, and the NHS costs for the same number of smokers are estimated at about 2 billion (heard this on Radio 4 this week). Smokers would gladly pay their own NHS costs if they saved the smoke tax in its place.