It’s a little tricky when vapes are suggested by the NHS as a replacement to smoking - ‘an aid to health’ (Less burden on the state though cancer etc etc) seems an odd thing to tax (In addition to the profits from their sale), Tell you what though, verruca cream should be taxed and no mistaking.
yeah but vapes are horrific things, they generate untold plastic waste, battery waste and toxic chemicals that end up in landfill. Cigarettes are bad for people, vapes are bad for the world. They should be taxed out of existence IMHO.
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You (a royal you, not you personally) have a compulsive, repeatable behaviour that has replaced something that they used to get money for. They’ve noticed you’re still doing the compulsive thing and they want their cut of it. That’s the brass tacks of it. Some of you appear to labour under the charming misapprehension that the Government likes you or gives a single shiny shit what you think. It gets easier when you disabuse yourself of this notion.
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Dreadful comparison, most golfers never get a hole in one so are not chasing a previous ‘high’ as they have never experienced it.
A hole in one is not the purpose of the game and you do not ‘win’ by getting one.
Comparing people partaking in sports with vaping is ludicrous.
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ah good old NHS… yes, lets let people suck on a different poison, which ends up generating landfil and toxic battery waste / e waste.
Vapes are utterly abhorant!
I replaced smoking with vaping about 10 years ago.
As a result I have not smoked in the region of 55K cigarettes.
Health benefits? Yep.
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100%. If they invented a completely new vitamin pill tomorrow that stopped you ever wanting to smoke again and only had health benefits but you had to take one every day they would be taxing the fck out of that within 5 years.
Just noticed that ‘crew cab’ pickups are to be treated as cars for taxation purposes. For this reason alone, it’s a good budget. There are four ‘company’ crewcabs in walking distance of me; two personal trainers, a dietician and a graphic designer. I have never seen any of them with a single object in the load bed.
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Apologies for the hole in one analogy. Perhaps people get a kick out of whacking a ball with a bat well? By kick, I mean dopamine.
You drive a track car for your own selfish pleasure that puts out more toxic pollutants into the air in 10mins than a vaper will breathe out in a lifetime. The energy and materials used to build that car will equate to many thousands, if not tens of thousands of vapes. You eat meat, blah, blah, blah. How about live and let live. There’s a lot of main character energy in this thread.
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The same way people get a kick from kicking a ball in a net, or running around with odd shaped balls, you can trivialise anything to try and make your comparison work but taking part in a physical activity with all the health benefits is nothing like vaping.
Put the spade away and stopp digging that hole!
id like to see your maths on the total carbon footprint of me driving a tiny car around a track 3-4 times a year, vs the footprint of the average vaper over a year.
I don’t think you’d like the result of that research… answer… it’s not me thats generating more CO2 and waste.
My point is vaping is ludicrous, as are many human habits (which can be dressed up as sport but always have a ‘pay off’). Clearly I’m being absurd but the moral high ground really is reserved for the perfect and I’m thankful to not suffer from that or to have ever met anyone who is. Should I ever encounter such a being I’ll be the first to suggest they start sucking their thumb.
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It was an example. Let’s total up all our unnecessary pleasures and see who has the biggest carbon dick? You’ve missed my point completely and deflected that we all do things that impact the environment and vaping as a whole is way down the fckin list.
I did say on my earlier post disposable ones should be banned as they are a pointless waste of resources. I also think the same about bottled water but don’t go ramming my opinion down every cunts throat when I see them with a bottle of Evian.
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yes I should also be clear that i mean disposables, and i’m aware there are better answers. Hey i’ll let people pour into their bodies whatever they like, i mean i drink 67% whisky, and I’m fairly sure that’s not good for me.
But I do think that to some extent, unnecessary and potentially life / environment affecting interests / habits, should be taxed pretty heavilly, as they are generally totally unnecessary. Track days included.
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I am awarding this thread a cat.
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This all became ‘my sins < your sins = I win’ very quickly.
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Because people get very defensive when their addictions suddenly cost more
Take up coke, screw paying tax 
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Just focus on the cat gif.
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My brain is so internet poisoned, I intially read it as Justfocusonthecat.gif and assumed you’d buggered up an embedded gif.
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