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Cigarettes gone up?

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  • #32
    cap.in.hand.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭cap.in.hand.


    Another increase by the cigeratte manufacturers for the poor smokers



  • #33
    Shelflife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭Shelflife


    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



  • #34
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,628 ✭✭✭✭briany


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/114731257#Comment_114731257

    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.



  • #35
    AboutDex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭AboutDex


    [Mod snip]

    What you're proposing is illegal and can't be discussed here.

    Post edited by BeerNut on


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