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DERBY PRACTICE:
Geoffrey Schofield D.Hyp
Hypnotherapy in Derby
148 Danebridge Crescent
Oakwood
Derby DE21 2HF
Tel:01332 544412
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Value and Tax
Cigarette taxation in the UK is the highest in the world,
making cigarettes, on average, more than twice as expensive
as elsewhere.
People in the UK spend about 12 billion pounds on cigarette
products of which nearly 10 billion is tax.
The cost to the Health Service (NHS) is estimated at
2 billion pounds annually.
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 Smoking
tobacco has been traced back to 1000 BC in Central and
South America, where it was used as a traditional medicine
for common illnesses – thought to be an antiseptic, sedative,
emetic, purgative and useful in relieving pain. It was
also used as a part of religious ceremonies.
As the many explorers arrived the gateway was opened
to Europe. Indeed, Christopher Columbus was the first
person outside America to see these tobacco leaves in
1492 and in the same year tobacco was also observed
being smoked in the Caribbean and by the mid 1500’s
was being grown, cultivated and exported for the Europeans
in the Americas. In 1573 Sir Francis Drake brought to
the British Isles the first shipment of tobacco and
by 1586 this was being smoked in clay pipes by British
society.
By the time cigarettes were created, smoking tobacco had
permeated almost all human cultures and it is widely thought
that the Egyptian soldiers in the Turkish – Egyptian war
of 1832 were the first to have paper rolled cigarettes
– rolling their pipe tobacco in gunpowder papers.
This was introduced to the British in the Crimean war
of 1854. These cigarettes called Papirossi were brought
back to this country in great quantities and then produced
by a war veteran Robert Golag at a purpose built factory
in Walworth, and by 1900 the cigarette had become part
of the British way of life.
Today there are currently four world leaders in the Global
cigarette and tobacco market:
Philip Morris
British-American Tobacco Company
Japan Tobacco
Imperial Tobacco Group
The human costs of tobacco use are staggering and rising
dramatically. Every eight seconds, someone in the world
dies from tobacco use— 4 million deaths a year.
If current trends continue, that number will soar to 10
million by 2030, according to the World Health Organisation
(WHO), with 70% of those deaths occurring in the third
world. Given these figures, over 150 million people will
die from tobacco-related diseases over the next 30 years—exceeding
the toll from AIDS, automobile accidents, maternal mortality,
homicide, and suicide combined.
Medical Issues
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