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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.
“Some 70% of smokers actually want to stop smoking. So if you just make it that little bit more difficult for them to actually re-start or even to start in the first place, yes I think it will make a big difference,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
He said 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.
“It’s a little bit of a problem to actually do it, so you have got to make a conscious decision every year to opt in to being a smoker,” he added.
The proposal is one of Health England’s suggestions for preventing illness which has been sent to health minister Lord Darzi Simon Clark, of smokers’ rights group Forest, said the smoking permit proposal was outrageous.
“We are becoming not just a nanny state but a bully state,” he said.
“Smokers already face record levels of taxation and this would be another financial hit on them. Tobacco is a perfectly legal product.
“There are a whole host of things out there that are potentially dangerous. If smokers are targeted in this way, it’s a very short step to slapping a similar charge on anyone who wants to buy alcohol or any other product ministers don’t approve of.”
Source: http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=7553649
Grrrrrrrrr!!! It`l happen maybe not this year or next, but I bettcha it`l happen!!
But the Greedy F*ckers, wont ever stop selling them though!!! :evil: :evil:
Thing is …. if the Government is so set against smoking, then all they have to do is to make it illegal to sell tobacco in all its forms …. and lose the billions in revenue that they take every year from smokers.
They could even deduct this lost revenues from the sale of tobacco products from the NHS budget.
After all, if smokers were forced to quit like this, they would all be much more healthy (allegedly) and the NHS would have less work to do and therefore need less money.
Absolutely PB, you are spot on.
Just like the global warming scam, this is just another way of taking money off people because this government are USELESS at spending our money so they need loads, and then they say, “we’re spending more than this country has ever done”, or, “we’re spending more than the previous government”,
As if all you have to do is spend alot of money…it has to be spent CORRECTLY.
Spending £2,500,000,000 billion annualy on a EU membership card is bad business for britain.
White liberals are the decent people’s enemy.
anyone that smokes dosent deserve any treatment they will beg for in the future
Why’s that rott?
whats that mean
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