LadyEllen -> RE: For the Smokers (12/30/2006 11:44:45 AM)
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Richmond Superking lights..... 1-3 packs of 20 a day - average 2 packs, say. Thats 365 x 2 x 20 = 14,600 a year, or at GBP 5-00 a pack = GBP 3650-00, which accounts for around GBP 5000-00 of my salary before tax, so about 14% of my salary is cigarettes. Of that GBP 3650-00, around GBP 3-00 is tax = GBP 2190-00 a year for the government to spend on crap I mainly dont use/need. Most galling is, to be told I'm costing the health service money by smoking! How many other patients pay as much I wonder? And worse still, if thats possible, is that on the continent, cigarettes cost a half to an eighth they do here and the government rails about people smuggling! Two very good reasons for me to give up I'd say. A 14% salary increase just by giving up cigarettes? Rob the government of over two grand into the bargain? I'm up for that. But what other legal means of suicide are available I wonder? E PS - third good reason; surgical recovery!
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