Budget: your views
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Alcohol and cigarettes
Life’s little pleasures will cost more from midnight Sunday, as beer will cost 4p more a pint, cider 3p a litre, wine 14p and spirits 55p a bottle. The tax on 20 cigarettes will increase by 11p and a pack of five cigars by 4p
Are these measures enough to cure our binge-drinking culture and help other health problems? Is this even what they’re designed for? This is what you’ve told us so far:
Again the budget is just a joke, these people who work in the goverment dont worry about putting extra tax on things like fags and beer as they rake in ludricous amounts of money for making the working class peoples life harder by adding extra to these things. WAKE UP Mr not so darling and sort it out. Im going for a fag and beer now. haha - Posted on the blog by shaun (TAZ) newman | 12 March 2008 at 15:57
Get home help
From a personal consumption point of view, I'd be lying if I said I was happy with a rise in tax on alcohol. But if it helps to solve the binge drinking problem sweeping the nation, then I think it's a good thing. I also think smokers should have been taxed more. - Posted on the forum by Jimjams81 | 12 March 2008 at 3:04 PM
Loutish and drunken behaviour will only be reduced by real consequences for actions, no asbo or community service order will prevent crime, but time in a real prison,and I mean a real prison ,not Butlins with barbed wire - Posted on the blog by Lee | 12 March 2008 at 21:51
Fortunately I do not smoke or drink, occasional beer or wine maybe, but to put this increase down to trying to stop so called "binge drinking" is an insult. Once again the majority are having to pay for the idiotic minority. - Posted on the forum by bertiewoo | 12 March 2008 at 3:58 PM
