I simply don't believe any of that.
You're telling us that it costs twice as much for the NHS to treat sports injuries (backs, the occasional cracked rib, broken bones) than to treat lung cancer and heart disease which are direct causes of smoking, along with a host of other ailments that...
I suspect larus is right there, but you have to remember we were being massively over-taxed at the time she came into power. What I would say is that I doubt this anecdotal example can be used as any sort of assertion that lowering tax from our current rates of tax will reduce the incentive to...