Scouse, It's pressure groups that get chances to the laws in the UK these days, government runs with them to shut them up. On the flip side, if banning advertising reduces the number of people who smoke in the UK by 15%, income tax would have to rise by 11 pence to meet the short fall.

The price of a packet of cigarettes went up 37 pence in the last budget, all that achieved was to dive people to those selling smuggled European Tobacco products.