The Increase Of Cigarettes!!

last SG · 2005-04-06T07:12:51+00:00

Sometimes price hikes aren't about health or watnot. Cinema tickets going up 50c, are they saying movies are bad for u?

kaka_22 SG

Originally posted by dragg:

frankly speaking i have serious doubts they are doing it for health reasons.
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To get tax and for our fighter planes.... Mr. Green

Danisdead101times SG

ask the goverment to lower down the price of the ciggies then~

dragg SG

they wont!! but if they do.... then gst up!!

which one do you choose then?

czechmate SG

I agree with this too. If it were really for health reasons, they would completely ban cigarettes - chewing gum was banned for reasons far less serious. They're afraid of losing votes.

Easiest way to go about it? Up taxes (and I'm sure the govt knows cheaper brands of cigarettes are going to flood the market as a highly probably result), smokers are kept relatively happy coz they still get to smoke and silly non-smokers blindly think the govt is doing something about the second-hand smoke issue Evil or Very Mad

Sigh ... sadly, within just a year's span I know two lung cancer patients who lost their lives, both not even in their mid-forties. One was a heavy smoker; the other lived in a home where mother and brother were chain smokers. The 'victim' wasn't even a smoker, was divorced and working part-time from home. Coincidence that the presence of cigarettes was the common denominator? I don't know ...

cornyfish2000 SG

This is so true... it all boils down to politics, eventually.. Especially since smokers make up 10% (i think) of our population.

Maybe the smokers themselves should also write in and petition to the government to consider a total ban on cigarette smoking.. especially since many smokers actually wish to quit smoking but are constantly tempted by the cigarettes that are on sale.

commonsense SG

yeap, temptation!

but is a petition gonna work for this? the casino has its petition too but i doubt the govt give a dammn.

dragg SG

it is definitely not going to work. since when the govt listen to its people. we can rave and rant all we want but in the end we still have to accept that the decision is beyond us. welcome to the new world!!

gasband SG

If the govt put in the following policy, I believe smokers though may not be eliminated but may smoke lesser or lesser smokers:

For every packet of CIGGIES you buy, you will:

1) NOT be entitled to ERS, NEW SINGAPORE SHARES.
2) need to show your IC, fill in a registration form and wait 3 days for approval.
And using that form, for every packet they approve to sell you, you will be
taxed 500% of the price of the CIGGIE.
3) Income Tax will be based on your annual income + any other income + the
amount you spend on CIGGIES (info will be collected by the form in item 2).
The rationale will be since you so rich and thinks that CIGGIES benefit you, I
am sure its ok to tax you.
4) Need to pay $100 for a packet of Centori and $150 for Marlboro.
5) Need to bid for a EOS (Entitlement Of Smoking) similar to COE.
6) Need to buy SMOKE TAX Similar to Road Tax.
7) Need to wear a box over your head while you smoke so that only yourself
will smell the smoke.

ANYMORE SUGGESTIONS? I will compile and send to PAP. haha.

cornyfish2000 SG

Haha.. then might as well ban smoking altogether! Laughing

cornyfish2000 SG

Heh, i'm not sure if it'll really work but it'll sure be nice to see smokers write in to the Straits Times Forum Page to support a total ban on cigarettes! Smile Currently all we see in the papers and in the news are smokers whining away about their loss of places to smoke.

Let's see which politician will have the balls to stand up in parliament and propose a total ban on cigarettes! That guy will have my full support! Even if he's from PAP! Smile

czechmate SG

But that's the whole idea, see, since the govt daren't ban smoking, they can make it so difficult and troublesome for these lung killers to get just a pack of cigarettes that they'll seriously consider quitting altogether. And to counter those puffing away on suspected over the causeway cigarettes, please show us your EOS Laughing Any way you look at it, it's pay-and-pay if you wanna smoke-and-smoke.

Gasband, if you're gonna give the next elections a go, let us know, ok? Some of us here might just want to give you our vote Wink

gasband SG

Thanks but my life is in danger now because the smokers will kidnap me and make smell their 2nd hand smoke.

This world was created without cigarettes. SO PAY IF YOU WANNA SMOKE muahahahaha..... Mr. Green

cornyfish2000 SG

Heh, i think that's what the govt is trying to do now, by raising cigarette taxes with every new budget... only that it is more of a gesture rather than a real serious attempt to stop people from smoking.

kaka_22 SG

4) Need to pay $100 for a packet of Centori and $150 for Marlboro.

Dude its Gentori not Centori...... Mr. Green

oxford mushroom SG

NO, no..of course the government will not ban smoking.

When you want to raise more taxes without getting flamed in all the sg forums, what do you do? Tax cigarettes... perfectly acceptable.

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