It's official: Ireland is getting a sugar tax

[barryqwalsh]

Finance Minister Michael Noonan announced that a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks will be introduced in 2018.

Noonan said that the tax would be introduced in line with similar UK plans in April 2018.

Health authorities and officials have been making calls for a tax on all sugar-sweetened drinks (SSDs) for years, with the Royal College of Physicians warning in 2015 that Ireland could become the fattest country in Europe by 2030 if urgent action isn’t taken.#

 

[barryqwalsh]

The next US administration, whoever wins, should introduce a sugar tax; with the revenue raised ringfenced into a Future Healthcare Fund.

 

[barryqwalsh]

There was bad news for smokers today as the Government adds 50c to the price of a packet of cigarettes in Budget 2017.

The move brings the standard price of a packet of cigarettes to €11 or more.


http://m.independent.ie/business/bu...igarettes-to-11-happens-tonight-35120635.html

 

[barryqwalsh]

How much are cigarettes in your state?

 

[Skull Pilot]

If I smoked I would smoke for free

How To Grow and Make Cigarette Tobacco From Seeds

The fucking government can't tax you if you grow your own tobacco

 

[barryqwalsh]

Tobacco excise tax increases that result in higher tobacco product prices are among the most effective tobacco control measures available. The bulk of the peer-reviewed evidence from countries in all stages of economic development confirms that when tobacco product prices increase, people use less of these dangerous products, or quit using them, or never start.

http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/topic/taxes