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The revenue made from smoking is many billions of pounds more than what the smokers cost the NHS, its a bullshit argument that none smokers wheel out all the time. Ban smoking and the NHS would be in an even bigger mess.
Texting while driving is stupid, end of argument. Doing make-up while driving is stupid, end of argument. Many things that involve not looking at the road while driving are stupid.....END OF ARGUMENT!
Way to completely miss the argument Trem
I've explicitly said several times I'm against useless laws. I've never said texting whilst driving was a good idea.
As for the smoking thang. I remember seeing some guy from Forest, someone from the NHS and someone from the (then) Labour gov on BBC news all in total agreement that the tax take from cigarettes doesn't even come close to funding the damage done by smoking...