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Darren
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| GJF wrote: | | The Government want all smokers to stop, but they are "shooting themselves in the foot", less smokers means less taxes, less taxes means they are short on revenue, less revenue brings up the question - where else can i add more taxes? |
Let's not ignore the reduction in the cost of treatment for all those that succumb to smoking related illnesses!
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| Darren wrote: | | Let's not ignore the reduction in the cost of treatment for all those that succumb to smoking related illnesses! |
And add a bit more on for stress related due to not being able to smoke - less cancer, more heart attacks.
Any extra money generated in the Health Service, showing as "spare" will be absorbed into more management salaries.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| GJF wrote: | | As an ex smoker, i hate all smokers and good riddance to them all. |
Funnily enough, as somebody who has never smoked  , I don’t mind smokers as long as they are considerate and do not smoke anywhere near me or anywhere that I want to go! ;) Seriously smokers pay a lot in taxes, and that money should be spent on the NHS!
| GJF wrote: | | But i ask myself, where is this taking us? |
They will start to tax alcohol even more and start to tax food. There may even be a "Fat Police" who have the ability to pull over people who have a high BMI and charge them on the spot fines! 8O 
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Let's not ignore the reduction in the cost of treatment for all those that succumb to smoking related illnesses! |
And lets not forget all the ex smokers will now live longer into pensionable life, no longer contribute in PAYE or ciggy tax and that means even higher taxes for everyone else, and when they become senile in 'very' old age, they will need hospital beds, so up goes NI contributions.
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DennisN
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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 As a former 60-a-day man (now ex and hating the faintest whiff), may I ask what the heck ciggies have to do with the topic of Ice Cream pricing?
What do you reckon this cost me in Corfu last week?
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Stargate2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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 back home DennisN, 
How you getting on with your lovely holiday there, any injury yourself there not falling over eh. 8)
This post is a off Topic forum for anything to say, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY ................................ :P
I am glad you are back home safe and sound, read on all the posts catch up you have miss the fun here. 
P.S - Ho I forgot I think your ice cream cost about £2.50p 
Nice picture ice cream  |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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P.S - Ho I forgot I think your ice cream cost about £2.50p |
HAH HAH Stargate.   Trick question. It didn't say how much did the ice cream cost me. I meant how much did the emerald ring cost me?
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Stargate2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Ho the gold rings and gold neckle then, 
I reckon this cost with three rings about -mmmmmmmm £500.00
The three Neckle's cost about mmmmmmmmmm £300.00
Have I won :P |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Stargate2006 wrote: | Ho the gold rings and gold neckle then,
I reckon this cost with three rings about -mmmmmmmm £500.00
The three Neckle's cost about mmmmmmmmmm £300.00
Have I won :P |
No you haven't won!! Unless you're a Greek gold merchant and I've been greatly overcharged! (But actually I was only joking - I didn't buy any of those last week).
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Stargate2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| 8O Your wife be reading this |
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DennisN
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I'm divorced - I hope my ex wife be reading this! 
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Stargate2006
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Wish I was single, my wife cost me moneys for everythings 
I going to Crypus for five weeks for my holiday on my own to save a few bobs. |
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| GJF wrote: | wrote:
Funny isn't it, I used to smoke upto forty a day, now i hate the smoke and feel like throwing a bucket of water over anyone with a "fag"
I'm going to look into the houses abroad web site. |
GJF, You could throwing a bucket of water over erm erm the rest of the camera a lots  |
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Stargate2006
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Is anyone's notice the Big Brother at Channel four and E4 of these housemates are still smoking in the house and outside the garden as well.
Is the boss going to ban them, guess not 8O |
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Darren
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It's not a public place in the legal definition of such so they can smoke.
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