Just looking at a few more figures... http://www.the-tma.org.uk/tma-statistics.aspx
£10 billion pounds the uk government raised in tax revenue from kindly allowing us to slowly kill ourselves smoking. cigarette consumption has dropped since 1990, by 27% hand-rolling tobacco consumption has more than double since 1990. thanks tobacco manufacturers association for the figures. from ecancermedicalscience.com Tobacco: £2.7 Billlion UK health cost (2007) So us smokers aren't quite the drain on the NHS we're lead to believe, we're more than paying our way! http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/news-insider-news.asp?itemId=311 (with lots of disgruntled comments). james (off to smoke another rollie, cough cough). On Wed, May 19, 2010 16:31, James Morris wrote: > I'm thinking about stopping smoking, I have a cold, sore throat, blocked > sinuses, sneezing, and smoking ain't helping... > > What about if I sourced just natural tobacco instead of the chemical > addled stuff available in the shops? Or I could even grow my own tobacco > plants... > > Maybe it would be a little healthier? > > There again, maybe not. > > If your eyes glaze over when you hear yet again how you're killing > yourself and others when you smoke, here's a rundown of the other issues > smoking and the industrial production of tobacco plants creates which you > might not have considered: > > http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/smoking_environ.php > > James. > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
