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| Thread ID: 116678 | 2011-03-15 10:00:00 | New Zealand Smoke free in 14 Years | Bobh (5192) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1186420 | 2011-03-16 21:57:00 | BS!! The loss in Revenue to the government would be too great :( :( |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1186421 | 2011-03-16 22:10:00 | Woman at work is currently pregnant. She hasn't stopped smoking yet and claims that she can't because of "blood pressure" Disgusting. Yet my Mum smoked when carrying me and my sister...she doesn't smoke, but I do! I dont hold anything against her, certainly nothing wrong with me...I think too many people stick the nose into other peoples business! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1186422 | 2011-03-16 22:12:00 | About time. If things goes underground, fine by me. I'd rather a blackmarket in cigarettes than pot/P And what would you know about it? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1186423 | 2011-03-16 22:14:00 | Only smokers I know that support National are Asian. The sort of person that smokes now days must be of low intelligence and normally has a low paid job. Hardly a National voter WOW, you truly are ignorant...I support National and wouldn't call an IT Consultancy a low paid job, but Im too modest to say Im highly intelligent! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1186424 | 2011-03-16 22:16:00 | I think I read that the GOVT makes $1.2B a year from the sales of smoking while smoking related health cost comes to $1.8B a year. I found it... Government collects over $1 billion million annually in tobacco tax and spends $56 million annually on tobacco control (persuading smokers to quit or smoke less, etc). Thus by about January 19 of 2010 the smoker (at the rate of 35 cents tax per cigarette) has paid for the risk reduction and tobacco control services for the rest of the calendar year. However the disease and treatment costs, estimated at $1.8 billion for the year, are not fully recovered by the end of the year. |
Tasha (16262) | ||
| 1186425 | 2011-03-16 22:32:00 | I think I read that the GOVT makes $1.2B a year from the sales of smoking while smoking related health cost comes to $1.8B a year. I found it... Source? I've seen various estimates of these figures on both sides of the argument so "The Truth"(tm) is probably difficult to pinpoint. The biggest problem is that the definition of "smoking related health cost" is an estimate, and can be manipulated to suit the argument, i.e if a patient smokes then any & all health problems can be lumped in the "smoking related" category It is worth bearing in mind that this "contribution" is in ADDITION to the health component of taxes paid by everyone for their healthcare. Thus by about January 19 of 2010 the smoker (at the rate of 35 cents tax per cigarette) has paid for the risk reduction and tobacco control services for the rest of the calendar year.Do away with the 'risk reduction and tobacco control services' and there is and extra 19 days of healthcare each :) |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1186426 | 2011-03-16 22:35:00 | I posted the source in the code. | Tasha (16262) | ||
| 1186427 | 2011-03-16 22:38:00 | I posted the source in the code. Cheers. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1186428 | 2011-03-16 22:43:00 | I posted the source in the code. Yep. From an organisation whos stated aim is to end smoking in NZ according to that site. :) |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1186429 | 2011-03-16 22:43:00 | Note so sure about the voting, under the rabid anti smoking Klark and her communist regime they kept taxing the ciggies. But because people are programmed at birth to vote labour they got in 3 times. |
prefect (6291) | ||
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