True but then people don't seem to fear sticking a pill in their mouth and snorting powder that comes from the local reputable drug dealer..!
I hope this turns younger people off starting in the first place. They just look at the price and stigma associated with smoking and don't ever start.
Are these normal cigarettes with no duty paid on them or counterfeit ones? I could never understand people smoking counterfeit cigarettes just because they are cheap. Cigarettes are full of poisons as it is. Imagine what else you are putting in your body with counterfeit ones?! You might as well drink lead paint.
There's no choice in that matterTrue but then people don't seem to fear sticking a pill in their mouth and snorting powder that comes from the local reputable drug dealer..!
There's no choice in that matter
16-26 cent per litre. Hardly punitive.Sugar tax?
Of course an early death is a personal tragedy.Fatness kills more people than smoking and is far more costly to the State to treat.
I've no problem increasing the price of cigarettes but where are the fat taxes?
In my Business, of 12 Staff, 6 Smoke, none of them buy cigs from the shop..
When I gave up the fags, a packet of 20 cost €8.50. I gave them up then because they were so expensive. It was always a Packet of fags and bar of chocolate every morning best part of a tenner there abouts.
The one thing to keep me off the fags, was the build up of €70 every week in a biscuit tin, taped around so as not be tempted to open up. The greatest pleasure i got, was to empty that out when full, with kids excitedly counting out the spoils. This i tell them is what would have been handed over to the shopkeeper..
We've been to the far east, America and many short breaks on this tin, which to this day, I continue to donate.
fair play, what a great thing to do.In my Business, of 12 Staff, 6 Smoke, none of them buy cigs from the shop..
When I gave up the fags, a packet of 20 cost €8.50. I gave them up then because they were so expensive. It was always a Packet of fags and bar of chocolate every morning best part of a tenner there abouts.
The one thing to keep me off the fags, was the build up of €70 every week in a biscuit tin, taped around so as not be tempted to open up. The greatest pleasure i got, was to empty that out when full, with kids excitedly counting out the spoils. This i tell them is what would have been handed over to the shopkeeper..
We've been to the far east, America and many short breaks on this tin, which to this day, I continue to donate.
I agree. Smokers pay lots of tax and then die younger.Of course an early death is a personal tragedy.
But viewed solely through the cold equation of the cost, it also means the State doesn't have to pay out pension costs, nursing home care, and all the other costs that hit 80 somethings for example. Thin people who don't smoke are what'll bankrupt the social security system in the long run!
There's nothing wrong with having a takeaway or a bar of chocolate. As long as it is in moderation. So who is to going to keep count of the amount of takeaways that someone has? Then you throw in the lobbying that organisations such as McDonalds and Dominoes will carry out on the govt.Fatness kills more people than smoking and is far more costly to the State to treat.
I've no problem increasing the price of cigarettes but where are the fat taxes?
Strongly disagree with this. As a parent I think my actions and guidance, during their formative years, had at the very least some effect on their choices.Yourself, Purple, me, and any other contributor here will have no effect of trying to get people kicking the habit or indeed starting I regret to say.
Over 30% of smokers now use roll your own cigarettes so they don't leave empty boxes lying around.
The smoking ban which was a health policy did more for smoking in this Country than any taxation policy ever did or has since.
Fatness kills more people than smoking and is far more costly to the State to treat.
Thin people who don't smoke are what'll bankrupt the social security system in the long run!
Would love to read some of the reports that led to the above statements.Fat people live longer and their health conditions are often chronic rather than fatal. They cost the state a fortune. Upwards of €2 billion and rising.
I used Allen Carr's book 'Easy Way to Stop Smoking' which was amazing - what a great thing to have done in 2001 and its saved me 20 years of grief, coughs, smelly clothes/ breath and expense.In my Business, of 12 Staff, 6 Smoke, none of them buy cigs from the shop..
When I gave up the fags, a packet of 20 cost €8.50. I gave them up then because they were so expensive. It was always a Packet of fags and bar of chocolate every morning best part of a tenner there abouts.
The one thing to keep me off the fags, was the build up of €70 every week in a biscuit tin, taped around so as not be tempted to open up. The greatest pleasure i got, was to empty that out when full, with kids excitedly counting out the spoils. This i tell them is what would have been handed over to the shopkeeper..
We've been to the far east, America and many short breaks on this tin, which to this day, I continue to donate.
Here's one and we are amongst the fattest in Europe.Would love to read some of the reports that led to the above statements.
Would love to read some of the reports that led to the above statements.
Maybe I missed it, but I did not see any mention of Ireland.Here's one and we are amongst the fattest in Europe.
Not 'actually, ' it was purely a projected figure made 8 years ago.I was wrong about the cost, it's actually €4.3 billion.
The was a study carried out by UCC 3 years ago that estimated the cost at €4.6 billion so yes, the €4.3 billion was wrong. I stand corrected.Maybe I missed it, but I did not see any mention of Ireland.
Not 'actually, ' it was purely a projected figure made 8 years ago.
And that's no easy task!People who are overweight somehow get dragged into the argument