Smokers

[Kent_Mackem]

I had a check up at my GPs a few month ago and was told I had a certain high level cholesterol that's associated with eating red meat in particular bacon..no more bacon or steak for me then..well maybe not steak.

I’ve cut down massively too. I’ve also cut right down on alcohol.

The question I mulled over was “do you want to eat and drink bad stuff frequently and die young or enjoy them in moderation and see more of your kids?” I’ve also been out on my David Icke and for a few runs to shift some timber.

 

[Binternet]

I think if you look at the figures, smokers pay more in tax than they cost the nhs.

Not any more. That was true when a diagnosis of small cell lung cancer had a prognosis of 6 weeks with no treatment options. Now we have lots of expensive treatments at our disposal.

 

[Exile in Ayr]

I think if you look at the figures, smokers pay more in tax than they cost the nhs.

I packed in smoking 20 years ago and I still pay tax because I am alive. Had I carried on I would have stopped paying tax because I would be dead and that's fact. The problem was it was affordable then without the publicity. That's not an excuse for a smoker or a drinker to be a burden on the state, but if I was ill through my own stupidity by overindulgence by drinking or smoking to excess nowadays then cancer or cirrhosis or whatever transpired would be nobody's fault but yours truly. The stringent alcohol limits mean driving is a no no anyway but with the minimum pricing per unit, Frostie Jack £11.25 in Scotland,England £3.99 for example, then you have to be pretty desperate if you feel the need. Aye it's even more of a depressant up here when you factor in the cost unless somebody else is paying for it.

 

[PhilSAFC]

Imagine if the smokers tax wasn’t available.

Will just go on summit else like drink

 

[Mackem00]

Love a tab when on the drink me like.

 

[black cat in france]

 

[Charmless Man]

I'll wait for at least 20 years before I will take a modern study on the effects of drinking seriously. Many many interpretations of studies on nutrition and health have been seen to be nonsense.
It may he a red herring but it's a l9vely big fun red herring and as I am part of the culture i was raised and live in im happy to socialise as I have been programmed by society. I prefer that to your Taliban social events.


You might catch him with that bait

You don’t think the conclusions have been drawn following decades of work?

And I’m not saying I don’t have a drink myself.

 

[robbied1]

I packed in smoking 20 years ago and I still pay tax because I am alive. Had I carried on I would have stopped paying tax because I would be dead and that's fact. The problem was it was affordable then without the publicity. That's not an excuse for a smoker or a drinker to be a burden on the state, but if I was ill through my own stupidity by overindulgence by drinking or smoking to excess nowadays then cancer or cirrhosis or whatever transpired would be nobody's fault but yours truly. The stringent alcohol limits mean driving is a no no anyway but with the minimum pricing per unit, Frostie Jack £11.25 in Scotland,England £3.99 for example, then you have to be pretty desperate if you feel the need. Aye it's even more of a depressant up here when you factor in the cost unless somebody else is paying for it.

Loads in Scotland pop over the border to stock up on booze

 

[Cheesy Feet]

I’ve cut down massively too. I’ve also cut right down on alcohol.

The question I mulled over was “do you want to eat and drink bad stuff frequently and die young or enjoy them in moderation and see more of your kids?” I’ve also been out on my David Icke and for a few runs to shift some timber.

You've got to mate..i rarely drink these days..i have beef with my Sunday dinner most weeks but that's it..can't remember the last time I had a bit steak..just got back to the gym anarl.

 

[MackneyHackem]

Love a tab when on the drink me like.

Smoking is absolutely class basically. Disappointing it took until page four to reach said conclusion.

 

[I'm Spartacus]

NHS is underfunded and understaffed. Imagine how better it would be if there were no smokers to treat.

Probably no better at all. people who don’t smoke end up costing the nhs a fortune when they’re old as fuck.

 

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[millfield ftm]

I’ve cut down massively too. I’ve also cut right down on alcohol.

The question I mulled over was “do you want to eat and drink bad stuff frequently and die young or enjoy them in moderation and see more of your kids?” I’ve also been out on my David Icke and for a few runs to shift some timber.

You've got to mate..i rarely drink these days..i have beef with my Sunday dinner most weeks but that's it..can't remember the last time I had a bit steak..just got back to the gym anarl.

I had a check up recently , wasn't good , cutting down on the booze , changing my diet , and get back to the gym

 

[Boz33]

They don’t stick a shit load of money into the system. As someone already said the cost to the nhs of treating smokers gobbles it all up.

Dunno how much fags are but I'm guessing they must be about a tenner a pack now, that's an awful lot of tax revenue they chuck into the system I'd have said, whether all of that tax is put directly into the nhs is another matter. Smokers invariably die years younger too, so the long term pensions costs would add upto a tidy sum if they lived far longer
Do all the fatties stick enough in through tax to cover all the obesity related diseases and issues they have?

 

[Dennis]

Smoking is absolutely class basically. Disappointing it took until page four to reach said conclusion.

Looks cool as fuck too

 

[Mickdundee]

Also repeatedly concluded smokers are selfish people. Never smoked myself but have plenty of mates who did, and some that still do, and none of them are selfish people, yet that insult is always hoyed about.

Back before the ban, if you had a night out to a restaurant as a group of 10 and there were 2 smokers in the group, 99% of the time the group would end up sitting in the smoking section of the restaurant to appease the minority.

 

[Boz33]

Back before the ban, if you had a night out to a restaurant as a group of 10 and there were 2 smokers in the group, 99% of the time the group would end up sitting in the smoking section of the restaurant to appease the minority.

I still do it now, if there smokers in the group of mates in the pub we'll invariably be in the pub smoking area so they can smoke/vape

 

[Dennis]

Vapers are just complete wronguns

 

[MackneyHackem]

Vapers are just complete wronguns

Vapists*

 

[Mickdundee]

I still do it now, if there smokers in the group of mates in the pub we'll invariably be in the pub smoking area so they can smoke/vape

I’m lucky that barely any of my mates smoke. On the rare occasion that there’s a smoker with us on a night out, the only way we would keep them company for their fag is if it’s a scorcher and we are all in the beer garden.