The Budget

Alcohol duty rates will not be changed . Tobacco duty will rise by 5% above inflation - 37p on a packet of cigarettes. The change starts at 1800 GMT today.


back later just popping to the shop for my fags

Always sucks when the prices on vices increase

Millions of people will be £220 a year better off as a result of the raising of the income tax threshold, Mr Osborne says.

that will probally cover my fags

oh dear another way to get omoney off us in the other hand. give you it with one and take it away with the other and where does half the money go. foreign aid and lazey lay abouts and assylum seekers cos it doesnt go back in teh pocket of the ones paying the tax in the first place

_julie_ wrote:it doesnt go back in teh pocket of the ones paying the tax in the first place

That is too true. Certainly doesn't get back in my pocket!

I think they could have something about the price of fuel us drivers are really being stung at the mo.

I did notice the other day when I drove over to Milton Keynes that diesel was 3p per litre cheaper than here in Bedford???? Why??

i'm glad i dont smoke anymore 37p shocking

Yeah im glad i dont anymore!

Just wonder where the middle man stands.

I'm not on benifits, and I don' earm £150,000 a year!

Apart from putting up the price of tobacco again, thankfully not Cider, once again its the working class that will suffer.