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  You make an interesting observation there Ian. The Government are indeed encouraging us to give up smoking but nevertheless enjoy the benefits of heavily taxing those that do smoke. A sort of bitter irony there.
  
  But two things ..
  any shortfall in taxation if, heavens, the public stopped puffing away, would be made up in other streams you can bet your life on that one. Booze would go up, petrol would go up and so on so forth ad infinitum. They the government would also benefit with a kind of hand wringing glee, by saving the vast amount of money the NHS spends having to care for the victims.
  
  The second point is directly in relation to the above press release...you as Joe Citizen are already Im sure paying more taxation yourself somewhere along the line because the smugglers importing on a grand scale is affecting the governments income. They have to get the £2billion shortfall somewhere and Ian Lillfords pocket is a good place to start.

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