But you don't see people at the bus stop in Faversham with a needle hanging out of their arm.
It's the second policy Sunk has stolen from Labour, the other being the non-dom tax status changes. It IS electioneering because he's trying to stop Labour having a manifesto by plundering anything they declare.
That can't be right, I'm regularly assured that it's not worth voting for Labour because they don't have any policies.
You obviously haven’t been to Camden lately people are openly shooting up Cesspool of a place.
This reminds me of that bit in Yes Prime Minister
The financial argument, just like it is re. healthy eating, is false. The Alzheimer's Society reckons that dementia costs the country £34 billion per year. People with dementia get pensions, get nursing home fees, and they still get other illnesses too and they still die, usually of something that needs treatment first. There are powerful reasons to ban smoking but cost isn't one of them.
Of course it’s electioneering, straight out of the Daily Mail which Starmer is afraid to upset. There is already a black market for under age vaping which can only get bigger. It was ever thus and I repeat, prohibition does not work, never has, it just increases crime.
Thought New Zealand came up with it first, they have since dumped the idea, not sure why.
Why do you feel the need to say that? It’s highly addictive most us smokers probably wished we never started. Funny how NSC has sympathy for alcoholics and not smokers.
I am pointing out that prohibition never works and would welcome being proved wrong, if you can. Most of the billions made in the drugs trade ends up in the banks. I would like to see you prove that wrong as well.
Possibly not at the bus stop Harry, but maybe more likely to be in your local ‘spoons, by the sounds of it!
Cool, another poor person tax!
And having paid all this additional tax smokers die early and thus save the State on pensions. Also, we've all got to die, so if the NHS isn't going to treat smoking-related diseases it'll still spend the money treating the other diseases non-smokers develop.
