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tonyco1:
I  have never smoked, but I am with Jim on this - the principle is that the tax is paid, but some jumped-up bureaucrat has decided to take the law into his own hands, and confiscate - that is just wrong!
In the mean-time another 100,000 ilegals are welcomed in so we can pay them free money plus a house!!

Jimbo:
Quite - actually it wasn't a bureaucrat - it was a member of what is laughably called our "government"  - (more U-turns than an Albanian unblocking a Greek lavatory).

Same old thing - bash the smokers. Send them out into rain and snow, close the pubs, tell monstrous lies about secondary smoking and the cost to the NHS, whilst not revealing the fact that smokers pay three times as much tax as they cost the NHS, live on average five years less (in itself a massive saving), and if they banned smoking tomorrow (which would be a more honest approach) non-smokers would suddenly find themselves paying a hell of a lot more tax! The spread of infections on aeroplanes has massively increased since they banned smoking and saved fuel by turning down the air extraction rate.

Traditionally, being a leper has been a free ride, but now it's quite expensive! Apart from most of the rest of the world. Why is it that a packet of fags that costs about £6:50 in the UK costs about E4.0 even in desperate-for-cash Greece? Greed and hypocrisy, in my view.

Rant over! Phew... thing I'll have a ciggie and calm down. 

katie:
I agree with everything you say Jim.  We always bring as many cigarettes as we can fit into our suitcases as there is no way we would pay UK prices.

Katie

benson:
When you buy in the resort or towns then they are not technically duty free. You have paid the greek duty on them.
Purchases from airports are duty free and thats when you can only buy a limited amount.

Jimbo:
benson - I'm not sure that's true any longer. I think (but may well be wrong) that fags at the airport are the same price as in a shop and are duty-paid.

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