It has irritated me for many months that people decide they will smoke outside my office in the covered area to hide from the rain. I do hope this will stop from the 1st July when the new law comes in.
I recently went out to a pub and found that a packet of 20 cigarettes had risen in price to around £5.50. I could not believe it! In the good old days when I used to smoke, my woodbines (only joking) were only £1.25 a pack and you could usually get a fair few of those down your neck before choking on various carbonates. I realise there may be some correlation between the ability to save for retirement and that of smoking. Although you will always be able to get enhanced annuity rates for being a smoker, if you decided to stop smoking from the 1st July you could be saving somewhere in the ...
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