Tax from tobacco raises around 9 billion
https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/tobacco-duties/#:~:text=Tobacco%20duties%20are%20levied%20on,and%20£302%20per%20household.
Tobacco duties are levied on purchases of cigarettes, hand-rolled tobacco, cigars and other forms of...
Drinking/obesity cost an absolute fortune, sports/DIY injuries all self inflicted rack up.
NHS is always going to have costs that are from people doing things that you could ban.
Should be educating people rather than banning it
Same as when the Tories tried it, I don't get the tightening of smoking laws (Don't smoke/Vape) it will just drive people to the black market/doing it in their own houses, which is worse.
The only change I would make to the existing rules is having an exclusion zone outside health care buildings.
I work in the new council building and the Mauritian gangs have a constant camp there, I feel some sympathy with them, they have been completely screwed over, they should not be in the position they find themselves in.
Fair enough
Like I said. I don't disagree with it being handball
but as you said, it's now back to the argument of do we really want goals like that ruled out?