If the government wants us all to stop smoking............?

Question

Why dont they cut the price of patches and increase the price of cigarettes. i paid £32.95 for a months worth of patches, after spending that much i lit up a ***!!!!!

Answer 1

I agree. My partner tried to give up smoking, but he was paying as much for the patches as he was his cigarettes, so he didn't bother.

Answer 2

The government doesn't set the price of patches, the manufacturers do, and they know they can make money by telling people "oh yes we'll cure your addiction", and these days people are desperate enough to do it.

Think of the long term cost. If you take the patches for 6 months, or a year, after that time you don't need them any more, and then you start saving a FORTUNE.

Like the thinly disguised excuse of global warming to put duty up on petrol, when a 1.5p rise gives the government billions a day in duty, but won't stop even the poorest car owners from driving, the government would lose an awful lot of money to stop people smoking.

Answer 3

Numerous psychological studies show that small increases on a regular basis, does not affect behaviour. A giant increase will. If you are a government, and you are aware about this fact, its human, than use it to keep making billions. All the crap of wanting people to stop smoking is the justification for the increase. It is a win win situation. Do you really think you can get rid of the tax incomes gigantic tobacco companies generate. how naive can you get.
The patches are just other ways of opening new markets, thus more income

Answer 4

I'M A SMOKER

The amount of revenue the government gain from smokers far out ways the amount they spend on N.H.S treatments for smokers. That is why for the past however many years they have not helped smokers give up, just give a token gesture.

Its only now that they have realised that more people want to give up and more people don't approve of smoking this is why they have started the idea of the smoking ban.

Patch's will never come down in price, as more smoker give up less money for government!

Answer 5

Your question is a real good one.Have you heard about the smoking ban in Ohio?I have been smoking 2 packs a day for 57 years and the only place I can smoke is at home sneeking in the bathroom.I'am retired and can not afford patches (which I have tried 3 times so far.I have tried pill's and they didn't work either. I really don't think that law is fare to smokers.If a non smoker comes into my house and they ask me to please don't smoke I will respect them and not light up.It just piss me off that the state has so much power they can TELL me what and what not to do with my life.I have been ill for sometime because of smoking.I still would respect a request not to smoke.It is an order that get's me off.I'm sorry so long.This subject is really hitting me hard.Anyway I do not want to stop I enjoy it.

Answer 6

If everyone actually quit, the government would be billions short from the excise payable from cigarettes, and guess how they'd get that money back? That's right, taxt something else. B*stards.
That's why I quit a couple of years back - nearly £5 a pack of 20 was ridiculous when £7 buys 200 in Latvia.

I didn't pay for my patches, I got them on the NHS - ask your doctor if you're in the UK.

Answer 7

The gov do not really want people to stop smoking. The revenue collected from the sales of tobacco is equal to three times the cost of running the NHS. Why stop this source of money? Makes no economic sence to me. Banning smoking in pubs, bars and restaurants, is not going to stop people smoking. It is true that large numbers of people may give up the dreaded weed, but smoking is here to stay.

Answer 8

you can ring NHS direct to get free patches, puffers, and gum. dopn't pay for it! the government doesn't want us to give up, they are just pretending!! they make far too much on us killing ourselves!! did you hear about Alan Carr dying? its a shame he cured millions of smokers. if you haven't heard of him, he wrote a book called 'easy way' there are clinics all over the world as well. ive smoked for 16 years and i began to read his book, the first time i thought oh **** this is going to work, and stopped reading it. the second time i began reading it and thought oh **** what if this doesn't work!! i know, sounds crazy but Alan Carr said that the reader would pick the book up several times before they read it to the end. im gonnna keep going with it because i really think it may work!! give it a go!! it costs only £10!!!

Answer 9

Increasing the price will make it a rich man's pleasure.I'm a smoker & i have no intention of giving up,i will lead my life as i see fit & will not be dictated to by the government.If all smokers stopped,everyone would see a massive rise in taxes to cover the revenue lost.So,i will do you non-smokers a favour & keep on smoking.

Answer 10

The Government simply wishes to look good and so legislates against smoking with one hand and greedily grasps the revenue with the other.

This, of course, is total hypocracy. Complete cheating - utterly un-British and lacking in good sport.

I wonder how many fires have been started by people having a crafty smoke in basements and cellars?

I will mount a campaign when the smoking ban in pubs comes in to force. Currently, I drink in a drink-only pub (no food, other than crisps etc) and everyone is happy with smokers. When the ban comes in, I will visit as many food pubs as possible, take a noseful of snuff, and try to sneeze on as many people's meals as possible. I will also report every bit of unsocial behaviour that I witness to the Police and local Authorities. Every dented can found in a supermarket will be reported to the appropriate authority. Dog walkers who allow their dogs to foul the pavement will have the act photographed clandestinely and will be followed to their homes and reported. Any display of a wreath or Christmas light on the exterior of any listed building will be reported. Skips left in the roadway without appropriate lighting, employment of minors on paper rounds,( how often are the weight that they carry in their bags checked?) accessability of alcohol in corner shops, litter emanating from wheelie-bins with defective lids, unemptied council litter bins, stationary vehicles with radios/bass boxes playing and similar possible offences will be researched and reported, if I can find a statute or by-law that prohibits it. If I cannot smoke my pipe in my local pub, and if I am to be surveillanced to death in case I do, then I will insist that every piddling law, by-law and rule is enforced. You have been warned!