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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (7224)	11/5/2000 4:03:27 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30051

True on the cigarrettes. I think a pack of 20 costs about £4.30 here (about $6.50) with the pretax cost being £0.70 (about $1). With a ban on TV ads of cigarrettes having been in force for most of my adult life it seems that just as many people smoke now as I can ever remember. Fuel tax also is about 500% of the cost to the filling station but more cars are on the road each year. I think that is a wholly different situation to overpopulation. Children can be seen as a tax in themselves but it is more a case of appropriate planning than actually wanting to have children (we could get into a discussion about the pope and Geri Spice here but that could get out of hand!). People actually want to drive and to smoke and make a conscious decision to do so. I think a few more car parks and roads would solve some congestion problems and save fuel but with cigarettes it is probably more a mass psychology problem - I find it unfathomable that such a high proportion of "intelligent" life forms decide to do something that stinks and kills them.