Smokers pay lots in tax and save public money

[Percyprod]

Funny how this sort of excuse is always trotted out to justify smoking. There is a high likelyhood it will kill you, or make you seriously ill, costs a fortune and you STINK. I always put it in the same category as other drugs, and yes that does inckude alcohol.

 

[MJPD29]

Funny how this sort of excuse is always trotted out to justify smoking. There is a high likelyhood it will kill you, or make you seriously ill, costs a fortune and you STINK. I always put it in the same category as other drugs, and yes that does inckude alcohol.

No need to justify anything, everyone is entitled to do what they want/enjoy doing. There is certainly no need to have to justify yourself for smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.

 

[Percyprod]

Or taking heroin or smack?

 

[MJPD29]

Or taking heroin or smack?

Did i say that?....

 

[Des 56]

I have enjoyed smoking since 9 years of age,now 58 years later,having never spent one night in a hospital,still easily able to clamber around attics etc,even do occupied rewires on my own
Not knowing who would happen to be my doctor if I was ever to attend the local surgery and having paid ridiculously high taxes for my pleasure, it has caused me no more harm other than irritation

One of the most irritating things about smoking are those campaigning non smokers who forever rant about its negativity

 

[Percyprod]

It is still a foul, anti social habit. So you've stayed healthy, how about the secondary smoking that has caused others to suffer? I was lucky in that the DNO I worked for agreed that we could refuse to work in a situation where we felt some one was smoking and would not stop while we worked adjacent to them.

 

[Des 56]

I genuinely feel sorry for your situation
I'm sure there must be therapy available that could lesson the abhorrence you feel.

Having experienced dust in the mines,asbestos in old building pipework,disintegrating insulation in attics, a myriad of other ingested particles,lead in the city atmosphere, along with lead in old pipes,diesel and petrol vapours from congested town centres,cotton fibres from yarn spinning,tin poisoning,pollutants from public incinerators and countless other society inflicted harmful pollutants, the average working man would have to class secondary smoking effects a little on the minor scale of concerns he should be feared of

 

[telectrix]

and don't forget the saving to the nation on state pensions. as smokers die on average 10 years earlier, that's about £80k saved per smoker.

bugger.got to go back upstairs to get a new pack from my imported £25/pack smokes.

 

[MJPD29]

It is still a foul, anti social habit. So you've stayed healthy, how about the secondary smoking that has caused others to suffer? I was lucky in that the DNO I worked for agreed that we could refuse to work in a situation where we felt some one was smoking and would not stop while we worked adjacent to them.

Sounds like you were a real pain in the a** to work with! Just because you think it' an anti-social habit doesn't mean it is. If you don't like it you don' need to preach it to the world, just don't stand near any smokers.

 

[Deleted member 104825]

£10.30 a pack I saw someone pay today - if that doesn't make you kick the habit nothing will !
I always think smoke smugglers/importers/counterfeiters would give up at the proper price - the cost to GB/NHS may well be covered by those paying the proper tax, but it hardly recompenses their families and friends for the loss (of the misguided fools).