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What you're proposing is illegal and can't be discussed here.
I don't think all tobacco should be taxed the same because not all tobacco is equally addicting. Someone who smokes a pipe or cigars is nowhere near in the same risk bracket as someone who sucks down 20 Silk Cut a day. Cigarettes are designed to be addictive - they even have extra nicotine added to make sure the smoker gets a particular dose of it whereas cigars and pipe tobacco generally don't have this and you don't inhale their smoke into your lungs. Well, most don't, but it's never a practice that would catch on, generally.
Interestingly cigarettes are the only product that I know of where the sales price and the retail price are set by the manufacturer.
Retailers have no say in setting the price and legislation only allows the manufacturers to apply for price increases.
So you have the bizarre situation where they control the cost price to the retailer and the sales price that the retailer can sell at.
Needless to say the margin that the retailer have been getting is being eroded slightly every year
Another increase by the cigeratte manufacturers for the poor smokers
I’ll follow them to €20.
Manufacturers increase. Delivery charges up from the budget and recent fuel hikes.
On all cigerattes?.. hadn't they already gone up from last budget
Price increase from next Monday, 30c on a pack of 20.
Truckermal wrote: » He's dead right you would want to change your attitude.
the_syco wrote: » The high price is making people look at other ways to get smokes. 2014; ireland-had-third-highest-illegal-tobacco-trade-in-europe-1389007-Mar2014/ 2020; tobacco-seizures-down-by-75-as-smugglers-use-sophisticated-concealments Increasing the price of cigarettes just means that Revenue get less tax. On paper, it may look like less people smoke, as less buy the taxed smokes, but in fact people are just buying the cigarettes from untaxed sources.
McCrack wrote: » The high price has lead people to quit and more importantly discouraged young people from starting. On balance it's better that they are the price they are and increasing each year
Dempo1 wrote: » JPS taking the Pee for years, 30, down to 27, back up to 28 and now 29 and of course price increased. B&H have been at the same stunt for years but of course there's not much of a smoking lobby out there to complain. About to start a course of meds to get off this horrible & costly habit.
BeerNut wrote: » Comments like this are not welcome on this forum. Read the charter before posting.
Dempo1 wrote: » Thank you for your insightful input but calling for a Ban for a perfectly ligitimate question is completely over the Top, will we request a ban for all threads alcohol related next? Free speech within the realms of decency, I hope will not be curtailed just because your clearly anti topic. Just ignore the Thread if it causes you such offence, but do try not judge others.
highdef wrote: » Do people still pay extortionate amounts of money to enable them to inhale toxic gases into their lungs? Why is this thread even permitted on Boards.ie? Surely any talk of this subject should be banned here as the net result is 100% negative!
zerosugarbuzz wrote: » read the Allen Carr book folks and put the money in a jar every day.
zerosugarbuzz wrote: » How much are cigarettes these days? So so glad I quit, read the Allen Carr book folks and put the money in a jar every day.
