@disco___cat They are good for drivers because it means that cars aren't sharing the road with bicycles and roads are less busy because fewer people are driving.
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RIP Sora, you gave us the greatest ai video of all time
Sora@soraofficialapp
We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team
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@YBattleaxe15846 @ToryWipeout Lost productivity is disingenuous bollocks. It is a cost borne by smokers themselves not wider society, in large part because they tend to be in less well-paid professions and because they tend to not live as long, which actually saves the NHS money.
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@Admalez @ToryWipeout Additionally - whilst the direct drain on the NHS due to smoking is £3 billion a year, compared to £8 billion brought in by taxation, the government estimates that more than £18 billion is lost in broader productivity decline due to smoking.
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Blow smoke in kids faces like we did in the 70s, make Britain great again!
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@YBattleaxe15846 @lufcgilly @ToryWipeout The bill bans adults. It is already illegal for under 18s to buy cigarettes, and smoking in indoor public places is already banned. It doesn't pose a legitimate health risk outside that could possibly warrant legislation.
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@Admalez @lufcgilly @ToryWipeout Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable - GOV.UK
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@lufcgilly @YBattleaxe15846 @ToryWipeout The estimated direct cost from smoking-related healthcare is about £2.6 billion. Most of that alleged cost is lost productivity, which is nonsense and a cost borne on smokers themselves. You might as well ban tea by that logic.
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@Admalez @YBattleaxe15846 @ToryWipeout No they don’t, and it’s not close.
Tax revenues from smoking are approx.. £11B.
Costs of smoking for health and social care come in at an estimated >£40B plus £25B lost quality adjusted life years.
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@YBattleaxe15846 @ToryWipeout The taxes from tobacco more than cover the cost associated with smoking related illness. Obesity and alcohol are big burdens to healthcare. Should we ban those or should we trust adults to make decisions for themseleves?
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@Admalez @ToryWipeout Because it puts extra strain on a health service that we all pay for. No one particularly wants to be picking up the tab for the effects of your addiction to burnt plants.
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An INDOOR smoking ban is one of the few bans I truly support. I do not want to walk into any place and instantly know that my clothes will smell like smoke
Reem Ibrahim@ReemAmirIbrahim
Nigel Farage wants to repeal the smoking ban. This is excellent! The ban infantilises the adults of the future. It is immoral.
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The slow march of state mandated price fixing market interference continues. Slowly, they are taking over the economy and everything will get worse
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast
Vets will be legally bound to cap prescription fees and publish price lists among new measures which will start coming into force later this year. Peter Ruddick had more details on #BBCBreakfast about the findings from the watchdog that has been investigating the soaring costs of looking after pets bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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This is what is technically known as bullshit. British Jews, like Jews everywhere, are overwhelmingly Zionists. There is a small fringe which does not support the existence of Israel.
Voice of Rabbis@voiceofrabbis
In light of recent attacks, let’s clear the air: British Jews have always been decidedly anti-Zionist. Just this past December, leading Rabbis in London held a massive rally against the Israeli government. The false narrative that British Jews support Zionism is nothing more than disingenuous propaganda designed to shield Israel's actions by hiding behind our identity. We are Jews, not Zionists. Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism
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@ToryWipeout You do know that this is about generational tobacco ban and not the indoor smoking ban, right?
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@ToryWipeout Why is Labour full of such misreable puritanical control freaks, Who wants to remove personal freedoms from adults and pass such absurd and unworkable laws? Since when has prohibition actually worked?
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Since when are massive screens that cover the whole dashboard the height of luxury? It is cheaper for manufactures to put them in. This looks much better.
carwow@carwowuk
INCOMING: All-new Mercedes-Maybach S-Class! 🔥 621hp & 900Nm! 🚀 0-62 in 4.0 seconds! 🚘 I6, V8 or V12! 🛞 20-inch polished forged rims! 🖥️ MBUX infotainment! 🎨 Over 150 paint options! 🤯 The price? While Mercedes is yet to announce official pricing, we are expecting the new Maybach to start at around £175,000! What do you think? Would you take one of these over a BMW 7 Series with its 8K display? 👀
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Transgender girls given until September to leave Guides trib.al/Jvg28D5
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@RjRazza @maxwell_marlow @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk @Keir_Starmer I am not comparing them, I am saying that it is ironic to use a picture of a woman smoking in order to protest an autocratic regime, while defending a bill that seeks to remove that freedom from future adults.
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@Admalez @maxwell_marlow @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk There is a major difference between the Islamic regime and the UK government. I appreciate it feels like @Keir_Starmer is trying to close that gap on many levels
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✍️ 'The puritanical spirit of Oliver Cromwell again stalks the land' I Writes @Nigel_Farage
Read Farage's full piece below 🔗
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…
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@RjRazza @maxwell_marlow @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk The estimated cost of treating smoking related illness on the NHS is £2.6 bn while the estimated tax revune is about £10 bn. There is talk about lost productivity numbers by those are borne on smokers themseleves not wider society.
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@Admalez @maxwell_marlow @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk I am not convinced that smoking vat and duty does make up for expensive treatment and palliative care. I'll admit I have no numbers to underpin that assertion.
I know it cost me a fortune and didn't help my health
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@RjRazza @maxwell_marlow @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk The tax that smokers pay on VAT and duty more than makes up for the cost to healthcare. She is smoking a cigarette in order to protest an autocratic regime, a freedom that this bill wants to deny to future adults.
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@Admalez @maxwell_marlow @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk I am paying for that benefit and I'm living in a country with free speech, so, I'll enjoy it thanks. Who are you to say I shouldn't voice my views.
The woman pictured likely doesn't smoke. She doesn't live in the the UK. It has a political meaning
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@BpdLion @maxwell_marlow @RjRazza @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk Child porn harms other people, smoking is about risk to the individual.
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@maxwell_marlow @RjRazza @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk Are you a pro child porn libertarian?
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@RjRazza @maxwell_marlow @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk Who are you to say that there is no benefit? People get pleasure from it, that is a benefit. People weigh up all kinds of things, when making decision. It is also ironic that your avatar is a woman smoking in support of freedom when you support taking it away.
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@Admalez @maxwell_marlow @Telegraph @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk There is no benefit to smoking. I found out the hard way. Maybe a better option would be to remove state healthcare and let people have their 'freedom'
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Why haven't you lot removed commonwealth voting rights then?
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
British democracy. Tower Hamlets, 2026.
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