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Articles
| The Economics of Smoking |
Look how much smoking costs per day, per week and per year! Think what better things you could be spending your money on!
If you smoke
10 cigarettes a day, 1$
Per week 7$
Per year 346$
20 cigarettes a day, 2$
Per week 14$
Per year 692$
30 cigarettes a day, 3$
Per week 21$
Per year 1038$
40 cigarettes a day, 4$
Per week 28$
Per year 1348$
The 1,154,000,000 cigarettes smoked by 11 to 15 year old children during 1994 cost £135 million and provided £108 million in tax revenue for the Government. This is more than 30 times the amount the Government spent to try and reduce the number of children smoking.
A large part of the tobacco grown in Europe is unmarketable and is sold at extremely low prices to Eastern Europe and Africa. .
In 1997 The Government earned £10,305 million in revenue from tobacco. |
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