cost of a pack of smokes up 10c

calex71

when did they put the price of a pack of smokes up 10 cent?????
got some yesterday and figured it was just the off licence making
a bit extra but was also asked for an extra 10c this evening in spar :mad:

with the budget on the way in a few weeks time to call it quits me thinks.

Turd Ferguson

FFS, I really think the reason we are going into this recession is because smoke are too fucking expensive and just the fact that they keep raising the price is not making anyone quit so we are spending more and more money on them and the economy is collapsing.

I'd rather move to China than quit smoking and put up with this bullshit 2am closing time. Seriously, what is wrong with this government?

:mad:ANGRY:mad:

Krieg

I noticed this today

When did that stealth tax jump in?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

It was tacked on to the bear tax - didn't you get the memo...?

xOxSinéadxOx

i got no memo :mad:

herbieflowers

tar breath! etc

_blank_

****.

Black market smokes ftw.

Cigarettes can be got from Eastern Europeaners or the Chinese lads for between €30 and €40 for 200.

That's what I do.

Fúck the government tbh.

Gunch of cúnts.

smellslikeshoes

Good time to quit guys :P :P
I could imagine if all the paranoia about the economy turns out to be right and we decend into the 1980s there will be a lot of people cutting down or resorting to rolling tobacco because of the cost of smokes.

MagicMarker

Oh, it's soo expensive blah blah...

DON'T ****ING BUY THEM THEN.

Sherifu

/sheds a tear

herbieflowers

why not grow tobacco?

ScouseMouse

New legislation came in recently to say that the minimum price of smokes was to be 7.14. This hit the cheap brands like winfield. At the same time, John Player decided to put 30c on a pack of superkings.

I am in the trade and word has it that there is another 40c increase in budget.

aidan_walsh

Krieg

Can we please have a thread regarding smoking without it turning into 'Smoker vs Anti-smoker' thread?
(In b4 "No! hur hur hur")

Anyway, regarding Des post
I used to get cigs from the Eastern Europeans back when I worked in a warehouse. Alas, my polski "contacts" run thin these days. I know their shops sell them under the counter, but as I understand it, they only sell to their brethren or if they know you (understandably)

Gonna try buying them online, or at least try and sus it out

Ass

Give it about two years and you'll be paying over 7 quid for a pint as well. Our Government is a joke.

DublinWriter

*sigh* Just another item to add to my fortnightly shopping visits to Newry.

Run_to_da_hills

DublinWriter wrote: »

*sigh* Just another item to add to my fortnightly shopping visits to Newry.

I thought smokes were a way more expensive in the north.

Overheal

See I think your government is waking up to the fact that people are actually quitting the smoke because of the price, and losing lots of revenue over it. So, in order to offset the loss you have all these periodic increases in the price of cigarettes.

Honestly people, get off your asses, and do something about it if you are pissed off.

Nehaxak

Same here, pissed off at the prices so buy 200 from a guy I know form Eastern Europe for 30 Euro eveyr now and again, actually buy 600 at a go.

On the other side of it all, I'm trying to give the feckin' things up and using the patch but ffs at the price of the patches Can't even put them on the drugscheme card to get a discount or tax back, but you can in the UK. How crappy is that. Government thinking about our health me arse, if they were that worried they'd put the patch on the drug scheme discount service and even go so far as they have in the UK of lowering the price of the patch as well.

Bah :mad:

Run_to_da_hills

Overheal wrote: »

See I think your government is waking up to the fact that people are actually quitting the smoke because of the price, and losing lots of revenue over it. So, in order to offset the loss you have all these periodic increases in the price of cigarettes.

Honestly people, get off your asses, and do something about it if you are pissed off.

The worry about this recession is the government must learn that it cannot depend on the old reliables, i.e. smokes & fags for revenue considered that they have turned so many away from them with their draconian policies. God knows what extremes they could turn to substitute this form of former reliable income.

Davidius

You should boycott cigarettes.

That'll show 'em!

Tipsy Mac

If you are moaning about 10c you best leave the country in October for the budget when the government adds their bit.

Overheal

Tipsy Mac wrote: »

If you are moaning about 10c you best leave the country in October for the budget when the government adds their bit.

well im sure is has something to do with other 50 odd times they just added on 10c

Daithi McGee

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I thought smokes were a way more expensive in the north.

They are but the currency these days is changing all that.

As a 40+ a day smoker I will be poor before I am dead.

Not good.

Ciaran500

Daithi McGee wrote: »

As a 40+ a day smoker I will be poor before I am dead.

Solution to that is obvious, die sooner.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Daithi McGee wrote: »

They are but the currency these days is changing all that.

As a 40+ a day smoker I will be poor before I am dead.

Not good.

Think of it as investment in your future healthcare.

CursedSkeptic

I delighted with this price increase. I do not like smokers, I don't smoke, and I don't like people that complain about small price increases, so this situation is quite pleasing in a number of ways

MooseJam

I don't like non-smokers, I frequently beat them

Overheal

CursedSkeptic wrote: »

I delighted with this price increase. I do not like smokers, I don't smoke, and I don't like people that complain about small price increases, so this situation is quite pleasing in a number of ways

A small increase between today and last week: look at the last 10 years.

The situation is the government uses that money "supposedly" for healthcare - and there has been a sharp reduction in the number of paying smokers. so now you have a sharp reduction in the amount of funds available for your healthcare system.

Its only pleasing until youre sitting in a hallway for 12 hours waiting to see a doctor, or on a waiting list for 18 months while cataracts slowly take your eyesight away from you.

CursedSkeptic

Overheal wrote: »

A small increase between today and last week: look at the last 10 years.

The situation is the government uses that money "supposedly" for healthcare - and there has been a sharp reduction in the number of paying smokers. so now you have a sharp reduction in the amount of funds available for your healthcare system.

Its only pleasing until youre sitting in a hallway for 12 hours waiting to see a doctor, or on a waiting list for 18 months while cataracts slowly take your eyesight away from you.

Small price to pay, I revel in the annoyance of others

zuutroy

Smoking may or may not be retarded, but smoking when they cost 8 euro a pack is most certainly retarded.

MooseJam

only 2.50 in spain i think

Jesus Loves You

zuutroy wrote: »

Smoking may or may not be retarded, but smoking when they cost 8 euro a pack is most certainly retarded.

Genetics make one retarded. Free will is the exercise of mind and thought all have. You know you should not called in that hand but you did.

Free will or Genetics?

God loves you either way.

Sherifu

Jesus Loves You wrote: »

Genetics make one retarded. Free will is the exercise of mind and thought all have. You know you should not called in that hand but you did.

Free will or Genetics?

God loves you either way.

I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Jesus Loves You

Sherifu wrote: »

I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Just be.

zuutroy

Jesus Loves You wrote: »

God loves you either way.

Well if he does I wish he'd stop fcuking me over.

Supercell

Good stuff, I reckon they should make them a nice round number like a tenner for a twentier or something like that.
Will attract all the cool kids.

Wagon

Roll your own lads. Costs **** all then

Overheal

CursedSkeptic wrote: »

Small price to pay, I revel in the annoyance of others

It'll be your annoyance when you get testicular cancer

Wagon

zuutroy wrote: »

Smoking may or may not be retarded, but smoking when they cost 8 euro a pack is most certainly retarded.

I'd rather pay 8 euro for a pack of lovely smokes then pay nothing to listen to a pack of ****.

zuutroy

Wagon wrote: »

I'd rather pay 8 euro for a pack of lovely smokes then pay nothing to listen to a pack of ****.

lol nice :pac:

Horsefumbler

An extra 10c? That's awful. Good thing smoking is female pastime.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Wagon wrote: »

I'd rather pay 8 euro for a pack of lovely smokes then pay nothing to listen to a pack of ****.

You wanna pay my tax for me, you go right on ahead

Phlann

I'm a smoker... I couldn't care less tbh.

If they had the balls to raise the price to 20 quid then I'd probably quit!

As it is I'll just get drunk and pay whatever they ask. Sad, really.

DublinWriter

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I thought smokes were a way more expensive in the north.

You know what? So did I until last Saturday. 20 Lambert and Butler are £5 up North and €7.19 down here. Do the maths and you save around 70c a pack on most brands.

Neo#

I feel sorry for you smokers. They must be burning holes in your pockets at the moment and its only going to get worse.

As a non smoker its the price of a pint which scares me the most. I was charged 5.90 a pint in Messrs last week at about 11 on a friday. If they put the price of a pint up to 7 euro Ill be giving the pub a miss alot.:mad:

Run_to_da_hills

Neo# wrote: »

I feel sorry for you smokers. They must be burning holes in your pockets at the moment and its only going to get worse.

As a non smoker its the price of a pint which scares me the most. I was charged 5.90 a pint in Messrs last week at about 11 on a friday. If they put the price of a pint up to 7 euro Ill be giving the pub a miss alot.:mad:

For those that bring in a few extra few packs in from Spain and other countries count those days numberd.

Fags will be one of the first consumer products to be chipped under new anti smuggling measures to be introduced. They will be able to detect exactly how many packs or cartons you have on you without opening your suitcase or checking your pockets.

http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39166497,00.htm

Ciaran500

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

For those that bring in a few extra few packs in from Spain and other countries count those days numberd.

Fags will be one of the first consumer products to be chipped under new anti smuggling measures to be introduced. They will be able to detect exactly how many packs or cartons you have on you without opening your suitcase or checking your pockets.

Pfft, it'll be defeated by about 30c of tin foil.

Run_to_da_hills

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Pfft, it'll be defeated by about 30c of tin foil.

Naw, lead makes a more suitable faraday cage

Dingatron

Buy them abroad. I haven't bought a pack here since early May and should have enough to last me till next Feb. These continuing increases are driving people to buy in Europe and also the black market (note I am not advocating people buy from the black market). As a result the increases cannot be contributing anything to the Irish economy.

Run_to_da_hills

Dingatron wrote: »

Buy them abroad. I haven't bought a pack here since early May and should have enough to last me till next Feb. These continuing increases are driving people to buy in Europe and also the black market (note I am not advocating people buy from the black market). As a result the increases cannot be contributing anything to the Irish economy.

Read my above post, those days are numbered.