11 pence per pack of twenty are we smokers being ripped off? what do you think???

Answer 1

Aw David, did you not realise that this question would get all the 'Anti Smokers' on here...........?

And, nobody forces smokers to smoke, but noone forces the rest of you to drive and I bet you all winge about the price of petrol and car tax. Likewise drinking, watching TV and everything else that is taxed. And as for taking up hospital beds, how many of you drink, take drugs or are obese all of which ties up NHS beds!!!!!!!!!!!

Wind your necks in for Gods sake!

Answer 2

As some has said, it´s the governments way to entice people to stop smoking.

You might feel ripped off, but at the end of the day it´s you who puts his hand in his pocket. But when people like you and i become ill after smoking these death sticks then it´s other peoples pockets which suffer.

I am not of the anti smoking brigade, being a smoker myself, but i totally understand where they are coming from so i try to be as considerate as possible.

All these restrictions are great for the non-smokers and can help the smoker also.
Maybe one day smoking will become such a pain in the rear(besides the lungs, throat, liver etc) that abstinence becomes wholesale.

Answer 3

You question isn't very clear, I take it you were talking about the recent budget, its about 5.20 pounds for a pack of twenty!
If the government was really concerned about the health of smokers and drinkers they should ban alcohol and smoking completely, but of course that will never happen as they make too much money off of us!!!
People say we're taking up hospital beds, well so does obesity, so should we tax people who are fat and stuff there faces with junk food all day aswell as smokers and drinkers?

Answer 4

I live in Spain where they cost between 1.50 & 2.00 GBP per pack depending on the brand. The UK government know that smokers are now "personas non grata" and that the majority of people don't care how much smokers pay to maintain their habit, so they sock it to you. There is too much money to be made so easily that they will never ban it even though through their greed they tacitly condone smoking on the one hand and then threaten witholding treatment on the NHS for smoking related diseases on the other. Pure hypocrasy.

Answer 5

I think the price of cigarettes in UK is ridiculous. I live in spain and get my fags in gibraltar where they are a pound a pack of 20 and they'll still be making a profit on those so think what sort of profit is being made by the UK government.

Fair enough we choose to smoke and its bad for us but, like any other addiction its not that easy to give up. I'm moving back to UK next week and going to have to give up because I can't bring myself to pay a fiver a packet in the UK...

Answer 6

The price rise is in line with inflation.
As for the question 'are smokers being ripped off'...

...Lemme think - £6 a packet to light a piece of filled paper that gives you a range of life threatening conditions.
I think they are being ripped off! It's hard to see the value for money there.

Answer 7

Asking such a question will result in non-smokers showing no sympathy towards smokers and your question does not appear to relate to this thought. Smoking cigarettes can be likened to setting fire to money. If you don't want to pay more tax, give up smoking - resulting in more money and improved health. Probably not what you want to hear, but fact.

Answer 8

Hey the government drug dealers have you hooked now they are just reeling you in!
Ignore all the other bitter comments from ex-smokers or do-good-ers. It's your life do what you want. I just recently gave up smoking because i wanted to and not for any health, money reasons. I recommend going to rolling tobacco though it's much cheaper.

Answer 9

"Smokers being ripped off?"

More like "Smokers' lives being saved", because they can't afford their filthy, smelly, death sticks anymore.

If it weren't for the fact that the nicotine-addicted poor thought of cigarettes as a necessity of life, the price would be even higher to encourage people to quit their dirty habit.

Unfortunately some poor, lower-class parents are too addicted and too immoral to stop spending their money on fags and start spending money on their children's breakfast.

You smokers should probably grateful that such people exist, and are stopping the price of your beloved, addictive fags raising even more.

I've used lots of... 'criticizing' adjectives here, you could say. So you're a smoker? You're addicted? Okay. But just because they're addictive it doesn't change the fact that it's a smelly, dirty habit. So don't bash me for saying that. It's true.

Answer 10

YES!!

totally effin ripped off as per usual.

Smokers are an easy lay on budget day (what my grandad used to say)

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