... on whether or not the government should increase the taxation on cigarettes. Firstly, the government says that smoking is very dangerous to your health with around 120,000 people dying a year from smoking and that is just in the UK. The government say that in this new and enlightened and educated era in history the general public do know the damage that cigarettes to their health and now the health warnings on the pack do also add to this knowledge. When smokers get ill from smoking, be it cancer emphysema or any number of other smoking related illnesses, they want to be treated by doctors on the National health. The amount of money per year spent by the NHS on treating smokers reaches hundreds of millions of pounds per year. This money has to come from somewhere and the government say that if people are knowingly partaking in something that ...

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