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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Barman on February 16, 2008, 09:39:58 AM
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Call for annual £10 smoking licence
Forcing smokers to apply for a £10 permit to buy cigarettes could help people to quit, a government health adviser said.
Professor Julian Le Grand, chairman of Health England, said more people might stop smoking if they had to "opt in" by applying for an annual permit and paying a £10 fee.
Source (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080216/tuk-call-for-annual-10-smoking-licence-6323e80_1.html)
Now, this doesn’t affect me at all ‘cos I’ve never smoked but what a completely half-witted idea!
A smoking licence, a licence to purchase and consume a legal product!
some people would be deterred from smoking if they had to make the effort to fill in a complicated form, get a photograph taken and pay a charge.
A complicated form and get a photograph! Or just buy from the bloke in the pub the got them from France duty-free on a booze cruise? What next, a team of inspectors that demand to see your licence when you are smoking to make sure you are ‘legal’?
After that perhaps a ‘burger licence’ to reduce obesity which you’d have to produce when purchasing ‘fast food’ and proved you’d paid the prerequisite fee and undergone a course on food hygiene and nutrition?
Or a ‘petrol licence’ to protect the environment – even better a monthly licence that restricted the amount of petrol that you could buy and hence your mileage. There could be little tear-off coupons that you’d submit for every purchase… they could call it a ration book…
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Like £10 is going to make one smoker think about quitting anyway!
It's not even the cost of 40 fags.
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I hereby nominate Julian Le Grand for the stupidest idea of the year award.
As an ex smoker I can guarantee that £10 wouldn't put anyone off. If you want a fag badly enough £10 a packet wouldn't put you off.
Still, got his name in the papers didn't he. Twat. noooo:
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Ignore it .... they are just headline grabbing idiots pandering to the gutter press instincts of our media.
None of these things will ever come to pass .. and they know it.
Politicians and more particularly this new breed of "Advisers" cannot let a day go past without spouting some nonsense, each vying with the others to prove they are the biggest, cleverest etc. Just like the children they were only a couple of years ago in the playground saying "My Dad could beat up your Dad" .... "Oh yeah? Well my Mum could beat up your Dad" etc etc etc.
Fvcking tedious then and fvcking dangerously tedious now. ::)
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Ignore it .... they are just headline grabbing idiots pandering to the gutter press instincts of our media.
None of these things will ever come to pass .. and they know it.
Politicians and more particularly this new breed of "Advisers" cannot let a day go past without spouting some nonsense, each vying with the others to prove they are the biggest, cleverest etc. Just like the children they were only a couple of years ago in the playground saying "My Dad could beat up your Dad" .... "Oh yeah? Well my Mum could beat up your Dad" etc etc etc.
Fvcking tedious then and fvcking dangerously tedious now. ::)
You’re right – these stories should all be headed ‘Look behind you!’ as they are invariable covering up some other monumental cock-up or adverse report.
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You can guarrantee that the government are looking at this and rubbing their hands together thinking 'more income for us to pi55 away'
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you'll soon need a permit to have a shite
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you'll soon need a permit to have a shite
You do in here - that'll be £10 please berek! whistle:
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I notice you arent charging for a license to take a pi55, then again that would scupper the lager production you have in the cellar BM whistle:
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Knowing this
gobshite government, it would cost them more than £10 a licence to run this scheme
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Knowing this gobshite government, it would cost them more than £10 a licence to run this scheme
Yes, it'll cost £10 for the licence and they'll whack the £25 admin cost on your income tax... cussing:
Then there'll be the licence enforcement/checking stazi - another £100 pa on your income tax... whistle:
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Of course it will, look at how much the government makes out of VAT on cigarettes at the moment. If they are going to stop people from smonking then they are going to have to make the cash up somewhere else. All it means is that the actual cost of the endeavour will be magically lower than the one the government bills us with.
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Smonking - has a ring to it.
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Smonking - has a ring to it.
Smoking + bonking? rubschin:
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Friction burns? eeek:
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Does it?
Thought it just increased the feelings.
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I have a fire extinguisher in my car if you need it....................
Or Vaseline eveilgrin: