smoking costs to nhs?!
Question: Smoking costs to nhs?
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What people tend to conveniently forget is that the duty on tobacco products amounts to over ￡10 billion every single year. So in reality it is costing the NHS and other taxpayers in this country nothing and is also subsidising other areas to the tune of ￡7 billion a year.
Smoking cost to NHS - around ￡2.7 billion per year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/765415…
Alcohol abuse - around ￡2.7 billion per year. Taxation around ￡18 billion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8433935.stm
Obesity - estimated at ￡4.3 billion in 2007. Expected to hit ￡6.3 billion by 2015. No direct taxation.
http://www.gponline.com/News/article/934…
Drug abuse - between ￡3.7 and ￡6.8 billion per year, that's just to the NHS. Estimated at around ￡13 to ￡18 billion as an overall cost. No taxation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1…
Methinks people need need to open their eyes and look at other areas of cost, besides smoking.
In a year, the takings in the form of taxation, by the treasury, from smoking, FAR exceeds - by many times - the total cost of running the whole NHS in that year. It is very-much in our interests to smoke, at least for a few years, to do our bit to help the NHS. The rubbish they spew out in the "news" media about smokers costing the NHS a fortune is just that; rubbish! If everybody stopped smoking, the NHS would be the FIRST thing to go.
Hello,
I agree that smoking is a bad habit and it costs the NHS money in respect that it causes lung cancer and other health problems. But i also agree with the other people that the government more than recoups the cost in the taxation of cigarettes.
smoking cause cancer.
umm because its unhealthy?