[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 13:23 on 21/10/98
about "Re: Nicotine patches":
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>Last figures I saw (I believe 1996) were that smoking cost the NHS
>~£150million per year while duty on tobacco amounts to £8billion per
year.
>That makes tobacco revenue equivalent to an extra 5p in the pound on
income
>tax.
>
>With that and the strength of the tobacco industry it would be
political
>suicide to offer anything other than lip service to the anti-smoking
lobby.
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Do you have comparable figures for the cocaine lobbies in South
America?
I do wonder about the completeness of the figures, for instance a
smoker putting in an 8 hour day works about 6 hours, whereas the
non-smoker works about 7...
and the hidden/opportunity cost of looking after the childhood
coughs and asthma attacks, ear infections and sinusitis, the adult
wrecked lungs short of cancer seem likely to be higher than that
quoted.
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