Is it time to ban cigarettes/tobacco?

[joe-90]

So now we have an industry that generates far too much tax for the government to lose,

Governments don't have any money - it's OURS.

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/ne...st-rise-to-reflect-cost-of-smoking-to-society

 

[libby lou lou]

My source? A field. August until the first hard frost. Maybe July if a wet warm summer. Can be eaten raw, dried for preservation, rehydrated and made into tea.

I don't think that really fits in here. I know that's on the net, but lets not push it into peoples faces, i have done it and had funny times

 

[imamartian]

So now we have an industry that generates far too much tax for the government to lose,

Governments don't have any money - it's OURS.

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/ne...to-reflect-cost-of-smoking-to-society[/QUOTE]

nonsense, the only way you have control of that money is with your vote once every five years... and that's about as random as wanting to scratch your own arris and phoning a random number on your phone asking them to scratch your arris !!!

 

[joinerjohn]

Governments don't have any money - it's OURS.

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/ne...to-reflect-cost-of-smoking-to-society[/QUOTE]

Interesting link Joe, but nowhere in it does it state the money saved from not paying out pensions, or for paying pensions for a shorter period (they probably left that bit out on purpose to make their figures look better)

 

[Whitespirit66]

Off to Prague next month for a few nights. Can sit in the boozer, and enjoy a tab with my beer.

They've only just come out from behind the iron curtain, and already they have more freedoms than us.

Also, smokers are good for the economy.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/839778-help-the-nation-drink-and-smoke-more

If smoking annoys Joe, then more people should be encouraged to take up the habit.

 

[joe-90]

So now we have an industry that generates far too much tax for the government to lose,

Governments don't have any money - it's OURS.

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/ne...to-reflect-cost-of-smoking-to-society[/QUOTE]

nonsense, the only way you have control of that money is with your vote once every five years... and that's about as random as wanting to scratch your own arris and phoning a random number on your phone asking them to scratch your arris !!!

Stop being churlish. If the government owned the money they wouldn't waste it. Governments don't have money. Fact.

 

[joe-90]

Governments don't have any money - it's OURS.

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/ne...to-reflect-cost-of-smoking-to-society[/QUOTE]

Interesting link Joe, but nowhere in it does it state the money saved from not paying out pensions, or for paying pensions for a shorter period (they probably left that bit out on purpose to make their figures look better)

Or the upkeep of families on benefits forever because the breadwinner is dead.

 

[joe-90]

Off to Prague next month for a few nights. Can sit in the boozer, and enjoy a tab with my beer.

They've only just come out from behind the iron curtain, and already they have more freedoms than us.

Also, smokers are good for the economy.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/839778-help-the-nation-drink-and-smoke-more

If smoking annoys Joe, then more people should be encouraged to take up the habit.

Russians don't have an NHS or welfare state - so there is no outlay. Silly comparison really.

 

[Alarm]

Joe

State disability pension: Benefits are set by the government according to categories of beneficiaries (and increased according to the number of dependents).

Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted according to the rate of inflation and increases in the average wage.

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2010-2011/europe/russia.html

Your being wrong a lot tonight ( And I can prove it)

 

[joe-90]

You're an expert on benefits.

 

[ABCwarrior]

They've got a lot of oligarchs though......oh.....so do we. rich getting richer, poor getting really poor and a massive erosion of the productive bit in the middle.

Welcome back to the new feudalism.....Serfdom awaits us all.

 

[ABCwarrior]

Your being wrong a lot tonight ( And I can prove it)
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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Maybe that should be "You're"(as in You+Are=You're)



Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life

But sadly came an embarrassingly bad LAST in spelling/punctuation and grammar of your first chosen language....

Try French? Close enough.....

 

[Alarm]

Your being wrong a lot tonight ( And I can prove it)
__________________
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Maybe that should be "You're"(as in You+Are=You're)



Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life

But sadly came an embarrassingly bad LAST in spelling/punctuation and grammar of your first chosen language....

Try French? Close enough.....

Awww is this your best?
Yaw being pedantic.

As per the looser here either insults or resorts to spelling comps.

In the immortal words of JC (You work it out) Looooooooser Looooooser Loooooooooooooooooooser.

 

[ABCwarrior]

Is a looser synonymous with loser?

Need f*cking subtitles at this rate.....Thank god for Scottish education.

 

[imamartian]

Is a looser synonymous with loser?

Need f*cking subtitles at this rate.....Thank god for Scottish education.

it's not just Scottish... it's universal... Alarm is just a forum troll.... wind him up here... it stops others being abused...