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B&H Black... What do you smoke?

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Levi said:
About £40-45, but I'm not 100% (I'll check later today if you like). I did find this online store; but the information is out of date. Excise duty is payable on tobacco products whether they're a gift or not, so I wouldn't recommend it.
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Ah! I can't believe how expensive that is. Maybe I'll just send her something else :p
 
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cheesybanana said:
Ah! I can't believe how expensive that is. Maybe I'll just send her something else :p
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Pre-tax price on a packet of twenty ranges between about £0.67 - £1.27 depending on brand. It's the tax that is the expensive part (between £3.72 - £4.07, depending on the pre-tax price).

prices from HM Revenue & Customs factsheet; February 2007

I'm sure she'll understand :)
 
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Levi said:
Pre-tax price on a packet of twenty ranges between about £0.67 - £1.27 depending on brand. It's the tax that is the expensive part (between £3.72 - £4.07, depending on the pre-tax price).

prices from HM Revenue & Customs factsheet; February 2007

I'm sure she'll understand :)
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Its the same here. Reason number one why I don't smoke. I'm too much of a parsimonious (<--any excuse to use that word) tight-wad.

EDIT: Why are they so taxed? Because anytime the public wants to build something...Sin Tax! And considering only about 20% of people smoke, it is guaranteed to pass. Lets see them try to tax toilet paper to build that new stadium...
 
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cheesybanana said:
Its the same here. Reason number one why I don't smoke. I'm too much of a parsimonious (<--any excuse to use that word) tight-wad.

EDIT: Why are they so taxed? Because anytime the public wants to build something...Sin Tax! And considering only about 20% of people smoke, it is guaranteed to pass. Lets see them try to tax toilet paper to build that new stadium...
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It's 24% in the UK... about 12million people. To put that into some sort of twisted context; that's about the same number of people who voted Labour in the last general election... and they won. If we could get some kind of "for smokers" party together, and we all voted, we may very well control the country. Food for thought.

If you smoke, drink & drive (not all at once of-course) here I think you'd pay more tax than anyone else in any other country in the world on the same wage.

Oh, by the way; 200 Marlboro Red is £52.24, but then Marlboro is on the pricier side.
 

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