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I feel like this comment is just ripe with jokes, but the phrase ‘invest in escalators’ is so funny.
Imagining some guy with a whiteboard, escalators go up, graph goes up!
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Tobacco duties raise £8.8 billion.
The NHS isn't the only cost. ASH put it at £49.2 billion in England.
I'm sure some of their figures are disputed.
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I do miss all the pubs that have closed down - this proposal could easily kill off a few more.
I don't have a source readily at hand, but I recall statistics showing that bar and restaurant revenues went up after smoking bans were rolled out in various European countries.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249552/
"Our results indicate that smoke-free laws do not affect restaurant revenue directly or as a share of private consumption even in a country known for its harsh climate. There is some evidence for a short-run effect on pub revenue as a share of private consumption, but there is no evidence of a short-run effect on the absolute level of pub revenue and no evidence for a long-run effect using either measure."
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That would only mean you stop poor people smoking. Or, as has been said, force them to seek even more dangerous supplies.
When I used to smoke back in NI, I used to get cheap 50g packs of Golden Virginia from under the counter at a local off licence. I then learned that it wasn't just truck drivers bringing back duty free (as the obviously trustworthy off licence chap told me), but smuggled counterfeit shit that was funding local paramilitary groups. So I was unknowingly killing myself even faster AND putting money into the pockets of Johnny Adair and his mates.
I was even a hypocritical smoker in that I could never stand the smell of someone else's smoke. Cleaning the ashtrays out in the pubs I worked at was worse to me than cleaning the toilets (and if you've ever been in the Gents in the Commercial in Herne Hill, you'll know that's a bold statement).
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Well done on the 10 years +
The “hospitality industry” only cares about profits in a dwindling demographic.
They don’t complain about supermarkets selling cheap booze
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They don’t complain about supermarkets selling cheap booze
Yeah they do...
Tim Martin, founder of the JD Wetherspoon chain, said competition from supermarkets was “a big challenge for pubs”, with the disparity in prices between the two widening in recent decades. This was “causing people to drink more at home”, he said.
FT. 2024-04-29 - Britons avoid the pub as cost of living weighs on leisure spending
https://www.ft.com/content/0d0dfe06-ffe9-447a-839c-78de94b90a0f
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They don’t complain about supermarkets selling cheap booze
They definitely do
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Next sensible step would be banning people
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I’ve never seen it in the papers
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Doesn’t tax on cigarettes bring in more than twice that amount?
Smoking is shit and should be banned but they’re a next tax positive on direct care.