Cost of Smoking

If you smoke 10 cigarettes a day at £2.25 a pack you will spend £819 a year, smoke 20 a cigarettes a day and you will spend £1638 a year.
Imagine what you could buy for that amount of money!

Smoking cost the NHS approximately £1.5 billion on treating smoking related illness and diseases each year. In Liverpool smoking costs the NHS around £12.7 million a year.

From April 2004 to March 2005 the Government spent £50 million on measure to reduce smoking.

Through lost productivity from smoking breaks and days off due to ill health, smoking amongst the Liverpool workforce is estimated to cost employers around £28.5 million a year. In Scotland it was estimated that smoking cost employers £490 million each year in terms of absenteeism and lost productivity.

From April 2002 to March 2003 the Government earned £8,055 million in revenue from tobacco.

Tobacco taxes in the UK are amongst, if not the highest in Europe.

The price of pack of 20 cigarettes is round £4.50, of which 80% (£3.60) is tax. By increase taxes on tobacco it is hoped that consumption of cigarettes will reduce, people will quit, cut down or never start.

However, it is estimated that approximately a quarter of all cigarettes smoked in the UK have been smuggled into the county, and sold on the black market at reduced price. Resulting in the Government losing £3billion in revenue annually.