La vendita di sigarette illegali segnala un problema più profondo con le strade migliori britanniche
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di topotaul
La vendita di sigarette illegali segnala un problema più profondo con le strade migliori britanniche
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9097lwxg9o?app-referrer=push-notification
di topotaul
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> Previously the Local Government Association warned that some black market cigarettes contained “human excrement, dead flies and asbestos”.
So slightly less harmful than the real thing /s
Christopher Snowdon is good on this.
Sale of legal ciggies is down and claimed as a victory for the nanny state. Meanwhile actual ciggie consumption has barely shifted, with the gap served by the black market.
This will just get worse with the new gradual ban policy.
Shit on a minority (smokers, and no, I’m not one of them) to claim a public health win for some future OBEs.
>They’re not just dealing in tobacco,” she says. “It’s firearms, it’s drugs, it’s people trafficking, it’s illegal immigration.”
Everyones seen the high street taken over by shops and business that aren’t legit, barbers are easily the worst offenders. It’s all a massive money laundering scheme for foreign gangs
Hooky fags have been a thing for as long as I can remember. If it wasn’t some old dear running to the continent once a month for some spare cash, you’d be able to find some fella dealing them out the back of his van. It was as ubiquitous as pie, and as long as the government restrict access (either by increasing the age, or tax) people will get it, using whatever means they can get their hands on.
Prohibition has never worked. Ever.
Isn’t it all a bit more sinister: fake cigs, fake vapes, drugs under the counter. How do all these random mini-markets with blocked out windows stay open 24h. The social contract is weakening and it is happening before our eyes.
So I don’t get what they expect. You allowed generations to get addicted to tobacco, then you tax the hell out of it and you expect those people now be able to afford and pay those prices. I am not saying I condone illegal behaviour, but this is an issue that the government allowed to get out of hand in the first place.
We all said back in the day when over 1 in 3 people smoked, that the government would loose so much money if people gave up. Look what’s happened they are now making hardly anything from tax on cigarettes because those that still smoke are smoking imported or counterfeit.
So many times over the years I’ve met people smugly showing me their £5 a pack cigarettes. I always warn off them but am waved away. “They’re real, nothing wrong with them” – I just reply, “we’ll see in 2 weeks”
Fast forward and they’ll sheepishly tell me how they had to buy actual, real ones, because the fake ones have torn up their chests and throats.
surely it is cheaper to just get a ryan air flight to Europe every other week for £25 and buy 200 ciggies than pay for them in the UK?
almost as if making cigarettes so expensive that no fucker can afford them forces people to go to a black market that will only grow. same as in australia. MAKE FAGS CHEAPER. then the problem will go away.