Cigarettes have increased to £16.00 per pack of twenty

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In the chancellors budget speech today he has not increased fuel duty.thank goodness.. nor has he increased alcohol duty... which are 2 of the most affected items every year and almost always increased, but the 3rd is Tobacco duty.. and again he has increased the duty tax on Cigarettes and vaping.. I m absolutely stunned that the price of just one pack of twenty cigarettes will now cost £16 per packet... just one pack...wow!:eek:

That is $20.36 cents US... per twenty cigarettes good grief...:eek:

My parents smoked a pack a day each... my husband smoked a pack and half.. now he vapes.....he is in a high earning job, but even he would say he coudn't afford to smoke cigarettes... who on earth are the people who can afford to smoke cigarettes in the UK ?.. and yet..altho' the vast majority in my area who once smoked either have given up or Vape..I still see people smoking tobacco and cigarettes . and they are clearly not people I would associate with being wealthy financially /// to put it plainly
 

CallMeKate said:
Whoa! I have no idea what the cost is here these days. Brings up a question...
are your cigarettes there at places where shoplifters can't get to them?
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yes...in a word yes. Most places have cigarettes behind locked cabinets...
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Smoking Cigarettes killed my parents and my only sibling, Marleen my beloved sister. They all died early of smoking related disease. ​

I understand the addictive nature of tobacco, as I too was once addicted! Fortunately, as I saw my parents and finally my older sister die, the 'lightbulb went on and I finally realized I was destroying my health and shortening my life. I quit 'cold turkey' and as of now I have outlived my parents and sister. My three adult kids and wife understand this. Accordingly, they too chose not to use tobacco. ​

If you currently are using tobacco quit while you can. If you truly believe you cannot quit, get help from a doctor. Do whatever it takes, just quit! Smoking/ tobacco use destroys your health and will hasten your death...it truly is not worth it!
 
When I smoked. (30 years ago) I smoked two packs a day, so If I still did I would probably be greeting at Walmart to support my habit.

I don't mind high prices to discourage the habit and I agree that it's very dangerous for your health, just like all the extra weight people gained after quitting.

What always makes me laugh is movie warnings; Rated R for graphic sex, extreme violence and smoking. Come on! It's just a bad health habit, it isn't a moral failing and it isn't going to turn someone into a serial killer to see a character smoke a cigarette.
 
Ya gotta admit that inhaling a burning weed isn't the swiftest thing humans have invented. And as a former weed burner, it's hard to give them up. When I quit cig.s were $5.35. Google says the average price for a pack, today, is $9.00. I think about $7 UK. I do know that most of the cost in alcohol and tobacco is taxes, not ingredients.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Ya gotta admit that inhaling a burning weed isn't the swiftest thing humans have invented. And as a former weed burner, it's hard to give them up. When I quit cig.s were $5.35. Google says the average price for a pack, today, is $9.00. I think about $7 UK. I do know that most of the cost in alcohol and tobacco is taxes, not ingredients.
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And all the people inhaling burning weed that is NOT tobacco....
 
One thing we humans are great at is Rationalization! Heck, we can rationalize darn near anything. Smoking, overeating, fighting, spitting, etc., etc... Each choice we make has consequences some bad, some not so bad and some just a little bad...pick the wrong one and the price you pay may be too high...
 
Anyone who has tried to smoke remembers that first time. Yep, first off it tasted terrible. Smelled worse and then you got a headache and dizzy sick...maybe even vomited! Our bodies were telling us something, this stuff is bad. Most of us did not listen everyone around us smoked and on TV and the movies way back when, everyone cool was smoking. We did not have a chance...

The guys who grow and make these things knew exactly what would happen, you get hooked on the nicotine. They also knew it was a health risk to smoke. They also knew early on that smoking was possibly deadly! Of course, now we all know they do kill you...! Not always right away, but in time, your health will decline, and you very well might die from smoking earlier than you might have naturally... Sometimes a lot earlier!

So light up....
 
Just think, it's about the best thing you can do for yourself, sit at the kitchen table with your Cell, smoking and drinking a big gulp
Shorten your miserable existence by decades. You full of bubbly, smoke and Cheesy grins. Remember Pool tables in bars?
Walking in, waving the smoke away, everyone returning waves of identity and smokey curls in the air. Cigars, Cigarettes burning
by the dozens. Then you decided to give up on bars and pool. Drive a field tractor, & fresh air 12 hours a day for a month. Adding
an extension to the Tractor muffler when Corn picker - mounted, due to standing up a lot.
 
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hollydolly said:
In the chancellors budget speech today he has not increased fuel duty.thank goodness.. nor has he increased alcohol duty... which are 2 of the most affected items every year and almost always increased, but the 3rd is Tobacco duty.. and again he has increased the duty tax on Cigarettes and vaping.. I m absolutely stunned that the price of just one pack of twenty cigarettes will now cost £16 per packet... just one pack...wow!:eek:

That is $20.36 cents US... per twenty cigarettes good grief...:eek:
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Why not alcohol, I wonder?

Drunks are a potential deadly threat to others, especially while driving. And even though some people still argue that second-hand smoke is deadly, laws restrict smoking around others in public places.

The US Dept of Transportation statistics show that 37 Americans per day were killed by a drunk driver in 2021. Four countries have up to twice as many alcoholics as the US. (the UK isn't one of them)

Taxes support alcohol rehab centers. I don't know of any smoker rehab centers. And I understand that non-smokers help pay for other people's treatment of smoke-related diseases, but they also pay higher auto insurance premiums and road taxes because of alcohol-related vehicle accidents, destruction and deaths.

Then there's alcohol-related domestic abuse, child abuse, child neglect, and even alcohol-related sexual assault, including pedophilia. I've never heard of any sort of smoker-related abuse of others.

So, obviously, upping the price of tobacco has nothing to do with any of that. hmm. Sounds like morals-based punishment to me. :mad:
 
This is one of the very few times Alcohol has not had the Duty Increased at the budget. CTobaco/Alcohol, and Petrol & Diesel( Fuel ) are usually the hardest hit for the consumer.. so no alcohol and fuel affected this time.. which tbh our Fuel is already sky high... as is alcohol... so for once it's a relief not to have those increased..
 
That's almost $1.50 per fag in Canada. I quit when they were about .25c each.
I wonder if people still try and bum a smoke or buy a single off others?. Crazy stuff. Smoking is very hard to quit if your working bit it's worth it. Now with it being like having leprosy and forced into dark alleys it's pretty degrading and humiliating.

I did enjoy offending non smokers though.
 
ATOMANT said:
That's almost $1.50 per fag in Canada. I quit when they were about .25c each.
I wonder if people still try and bum a smoke or buy a single off others?. Crazy stuff. Smoking is very hard to quit if your working bit it's worth it. Now with it being like having leprosy and forced into dark alleys it's pretty degrading and humiliating.

I did enjoy offending non smokers though.
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dya know it's many years since I hear the expression ''fag'' for a cigarette.? It was very much in vogue when I was younger.. but I haven't heard it for a long time.. or ''bum'' a cigarette..

... for those not in the know it means to cadge, a cigie... That said.. aside from my husband I am never in the company of smokers... certainly not for at least 25 years
 
I as a former smoker do not judge others. There are many that want to quit but have not managed to find the strength and determination to take on this task. That does not make them bad people, it is another form of addiction. Most began when they were really young and did not know it would almost impossible to quit.

I enjoyed smoking, I did not want to quit but the first sign of a health problem I committed to quitting. It has been a hard two and half years. I often find myself reaching for a cigarette that is not there when I am upset. I also know if I just smoked one I would be right back there and would not have the strength to stop.

Yes, I have put on weight but my doctor says the weight is the better thing between the two.
 

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