I am wondering, after the smoking ban appears in England (around summer 2007 i think), and people will either try to give up smoking, or at least stay at home and smoke to their hearts content, obviously there will be a small drop in the sale of cigarettes,and pub attendances are sure to drop even more, so what will the government do in regards to lost tax revenue?
Will they be adding the tax on something else?
Probably.
Have they got a plan to add it on something somewhere else?
If so, what would they add it on to?
2006-11-30 02:33:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I am no smoker but if someone likes to smoke then that is their business, so long as they don't blow smoke over everyone else that doesn't.....let's see the idiots in Government concentrate on something more important such as Britains overpopulation problem for instance....This is never mentioned of course since they are **** scared of loosing votes......but it will at some stage however, return to bite them up the ***.
2006-12-03 20:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a smoker and I'll not go into the pubs when they go smoke free, so I hope the publicans enjoy the sales they get from non-smokers, because if the government needs to boost their taxes, it will go onto cigarettes surely.
It's the proposed green tax that's bothering me. What the heck? I read that the ozone layer is slowly repairing itself, so this has to be another ruse for the government to increase taxes to boost their spending. We already pay community tax and all sorts of other taxes, and soon, the government will wonder why nobody wants to go to work just to support the country, for there will be very little wages to bring home and very few leisure places where the smokers can go, toboot. I'm getting on my high horse here, but drivers who complain about smokers are the pits, because their petrol fumes are just as harmful as cigarette smoke. Thanks for letting me have a moan... that's made my day! :-)
Waiting for the system to crumble... :-)
2006-11-30 02:48:45 · answer #2 · answered by Darkwing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sound like a smoker..
Having travelled to New York and Ireland recently, I can tell you that the results of the ban are the opposite of what you imagine. Pub attendances are up because people who avoided the carcinogenic atmosphere of smoky pubs, can now go in and breathe fresh air and leave without their clothes stinking.
And what the goverment may lose in the short term from tax revenue will be more than made up from not having to treat smokers for their self-inflicted injuries and non-smokers for their passive-smoking ones.
2006-11-30 02:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Chubby 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From living in Norway & visiting Ireland in the past few years I've noticed the ban hasn't effected bars too much - a lot have made heated and covered terraces which are generally the busiest and best part of the bar to be in. And there hasn't been too much of a drop in people's smoking, therefore the government will still get its money.
2006-11-30 03:59:56 · answer #4 · answered by Micah H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since all Governments insist that smokers cost the NHS money, a reduction in active and passive smoking should reduce NHS costs, thereby offsetting any need to increase taxes. Alternatively I now wake up, smell the coffee and state that of course they'll increase/add taxes to something else!
2006-11-30 02:40:54 · answer #5 · answered by France50 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as i stay in scotland and the ban has been in place for a while now, i dont know about cigarette sale's, but as for pub losing customers that has not happened, and the same goes for ireland infact its the other way about, the pubs are thriving at the moment, as for the tax's it wont affect them atall, the tax's will always goes up on things no matter what happens
the ban has been very successful
2006-11-30 02:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by rusty red 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a big smoker 35 years i don't want to stop but in small places yes sometimes the smoke hurts my eyes. So have to go outside but please at least give us some protection from the rain, and long live open air concerts i can smoke to my hearts contention.
2006-11-30 02:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by one man down 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hopefully they do a smoking ban, the sooner the better i say, i used to be a smoker never used to worry about it before. then when i gave up which is nearlly two years ago next june i noticed the smell it clings to your clothes. and everything. its a disgusting habit, not only that i find it offensive when people breathe there **** out and it gets in our bodies and our childs bodies. shows you that some people dont have consideration for anyone
2006-11-30 06:07:22 · answer #8 · answered by Gerards twin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cigarette tax funds the NHS, which is ironic. They will use the old climate excuse again but we will be taxed one way or another.
2006-11-30 03:04:15 · answer #9 · answered by Annie M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Loss of tax from sale of cigarettes and alcohol...
Lots of tax spent on illegal immigrants...
Kick out illegal immigrants...
Balance restored.
2006-11-30 02:37:21 · answer #10 · answered by hardcoredjbenzy 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋