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Once again, i smoke. Im always being bullied out of buildings (pubs, offices, everywhere) because i smoke, the PC brigade dont want us to smoke, because of their rights, well what about my rights,? my ciggy tax pays for the nhs, but i dont see a non smoker thanking me when they have their operations.

If everyone in UK were to stop smoking, other taxes would rise, then we would get blame for that too.

Why are smokers seen as the lowest of the low, it's not illegal to smoke, leave us be, it's our right to choose to smoke, and i respect that it does effect some people who dont, but you dont give a damn about us.

Lighten up, smokers aren't evil, it's a habit, a bad one maybe, but when smoking is banned in this country, please remember when your taxes are raised to cover the shortfall, you heard it here first.

now im going for a smoke. lol

2006-11-04 10:35:22 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

£4 tax on a pack of 20 ciggy's, 7 boxes a week, £28 a week, 52 weeks £1456 a year (tax), 25% of country are smokers (65 million people) = 17,000,000 x £1456 = £24,752,000,000 per year on ciggy taxes. but we dont pay for it. lol

2006-11-04 11:15:19 · update #1

23 answers

You are right about taxes being raised if everyone stopped smoking.
The NHS would be on its knees if everyone stopped.
Its becoming more acceptable to be a heroin addict than a smoker in britain.

2006-11-04 22:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by Catwhiskers 5 · 1 0

I dislike smokers because I dislike everyone who needlessly pollutes the environment and litters our streets. I hope that not all smokers chuck their butts on the ground, but there are certainly a whole lot who do.

I dislike them because they are knowingly choosing to poison not only themselves but me and everyone else around as well. I hate the fact that people smoke in places where I have to go, and make me feel nauseous and dizzy, and contribute to my cancer risk. I hate the fact that having to walk past smokers on my way to work leaves a smell on my hair and clothes.

I think you're wrong in saying that people who are anti-smoking don't give a damn about smokers - smokers are the ones who would benefit the most from quitting.

I personally would be more than happy to pay more tax if it meant never having to deal with filthy disgusting cigarettes again. I hate the smoking rather than hating smokers, but it's hard to respect people who keep doing something that harms themselves and everything around them with the full knowledge that it does so. I applaud any smoker who chooses to quit, I know it's hard because I've seen my parents go through it, but they've been tobacco free for 27 and 7 years now, so I know it's not impossible either.
Growing up with smokers is probably the thing that did the most to turn me against it - experiencing first hand the negative effect it's had on my parents, myself and my brother and even our pets
turned me off ever touching a cigarette, so I hate it when other people force me to passively smoke theirs.

You're free to kill yourself in whatever way I choose, but don't expect me to happy when you impose your filthy habit on me as well.

I'm also feeling particularly vitriolic about it at the moment having had the incredibly frustrating experience of having someone waving their cigarettes in my face when they were smoking in a place where it was very obviously barred, and there was absolutely nothing I could do to make them stop without resorting to physical violence. (I didn't)

2006-11-04 14:41:36 · answer #2 · answered by lauriekins 5 · 1 0

I get the feeling you posted this question because you enjoy stirring people up lol! I don't smoke i have never have, but i can see your point. I think the main reason smokers are frowned upon is because smoking related illnesses cost a fortune for the nhs. You mentioned the taxes, but i bet if the truth was known, that money goes elsewhere! The only thing i have against smokers is that they get '***' breaks at work and yet if my boss sees me sitting on my ar*e for five minutes i get in trouble. That's unfair. Stop smoking, it stinks, it's gross, it's suicide.

2006-11-04 10:46:36 · answer #3 · answered by highrevs 1 · 1 0

It's a tough one...
It's my money and if I want to spend it on fags, thats up to me. I think that I should have the right in this free country of ours to have a cigarette in my local pub. But by the same token, a non smoker shouldn't have to sit and breathe it in, as they also have the same rights as me.
Saying that though, I stand outside my own house when I smoke because I don't want my house to stink!
The only answer is seperate rooms, one for the smokers, and one for the non smokers. We are all paying the same amount for the beer, so surely the smokers should be allowed to enjoy it.

2006-11-04 11:04:32 · answer #4 · answered by Louise 2 · 2 0

As a smoker myself, I do not believe that non smokers should be forced to inhale the toxic fumes from my ciggies. Passive smoking kills. Its my own choice to smoke, just as its a non smokers not to.

The NHS argument doesnt stack up. Us smokers have more NHS money spent on us than non smokers.

I'm scottish and we have a smoking ban and I prefer it. I can nip outside for a ciggy, talk to people I wouldnt normally speak to and have a 'craic'. And you can even wear your clothes the following day without them stinking (stale ciggy smoke aint nice). And as for eating in pubs/restuarants, I hate someone beside me smoking as I eat.

Its hardly suprising your think youre the lowest of the low as your self-centred rant seems to suggest that you dont give a damn for anyone else, just yourself.

I smoke 15 a day. Thats my choice and I know its doing me harm but I do not have to inflict my choices and this harm onto others.

2006-11-04 10:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by Ecko 4 · 3 1

i don't know really. passive smoking is nowhere near as harmful as it's puported to be. as for the taxes thing, well, you do cost the nhs a lot too.....i'm not sure if the money put in by cigarette tax makes up for the money spent on ill smokers. but there's other stuff that i'm sure does a lot more damage to the community and costs the nhs and government more i.e. alcohol - direct damage from alcohol, accidents by people under the influence of alcohol, people behaving violently under the influence of alcohol etc.. i used to smoke, rarely, socially, a few years back but i got bored of it so i stopped; i still smoke marijuana in passing.

2006-11-04 10:58:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

First time I tried a cigarette, I coughed my guts out and ran for a glass of water. It was such a negative experience, that I would have had to be really really stupid to try it again. This is a common experience -- even Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes had this reaction.

We're all stupid about something, but most of us don't show it in the middle of our faces for five minutes out of every thirty.

I'll stop bashing smokers when there are no more piles of cigarette butts by the curb at freeway offramps, and no brush fires in the hills next to the freeways. I won't say that all smokers are litterbugs -- but I will say that too many are.

2006-11-04 10:45:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I'm a smoker myself and would have to agree with you. I come from Scotland and the smoking ban in public places is in force here already. Don't mind in resturaunts and stuff but i do miss my ciggies with my drink when i'm on a night out.

2006-11-04 10:47:10 · answer #8 · answered by feefee 3 · 3 0

I have asthma. It's not something I chose to have. Smoking is a choice. I hate having to go into smoke filled places to eat and drink. You can always step outside to smoke. Granted, I end up going outside a lot when I'm out. However, I don't make rude comments to smokers or anything. I just deal with it.

2006-11-04 10:41:24 · answer #9 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 4 0

I am an ex smoker but do sympathise with you. It is a sad fact that people don't want you around and yes the tax collected would go down but health generally is better after quitting and most people only want what is best for you.

2006-11-04 10:42:21 · answer #10 · answered by Rizzo 2 · 2 0

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