Sugar tax is simple and highly effective.
What I see is they do not put much effort into it, certainly not compared with the witch hunt on tobacco.
Especially since a large percentage is suffering from obesity and only getting worse.
But as I said, electoral suicide.
Imagine paying 6x more for a soft drink, that would be the equivalent of tobacco taxes.

why and how would smokers contribute more?
As I said, taxes are extremely high on tobacco. 85%
Even disregarding the amount in general taxes smokers also pay for healthcare that alone is more than the cost of smoking to healthcare.
Unfortunately couldn’t find the study I read but it came down to a few 100 million surplus (in NL).

And yes not needing to pay pensions is a big part of the gains to to the state but also not having to pay for the plethora of other diseases the elderly invariably get.
And while obese people indeed have premature mortality that is often preceded by decades of chronic illnesses and care.
And same as smokers that includes increased risk of cancers.
Unlike most smokers very obese people often can’t perform physical labor the average human can.
There’s more, like logistics and how many hospital workers and specialized ambulances or equipment it takes to simply move the more extreme cases but I think this will do.
To be clear, I’m not defending smoking but the argument of how they don’t want to help smokers (basically addicts and victims) because it costs their health system is wrong.
Not to mention anti-social and selfish.
As I mentioned in the other comment, that’s a slippery slope.

Dead wrong.
The whole population benefits from what smokers pay.
From a study in NL it shows that they generate far more than what it costs in healthcare.
And it also said should the small percentage of smokers suddenly quit and live longer, the loss of income for the state and the extra cost of them living longer and needing more care would be unsustainable.

And if you want to be selfish and not have solidarity then let’s start about the much bigger cost of the SELF-INFLICTED diabetic epidemic.
They require an avg of 28 years of aid.
And almost no country wants to tackle that because of their opportunistic politicians.
Who cares about antagonizing a small percentage that smokes.
But the many sugar addicts poisoning themselves are too important for their precious votes to touch.
And those same hypocrite politicians can be seen regularly with a glass of alcohol (hard drugs) in their hand.
And as an edit, I don’t want to pay for your skin cancer treatment also, should’ve stayed out of the sun.

Yet they attack France for banning nicotine pouches and calling it an attack on the Swedish way of life.

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There are plenty of ML’s who would gladly and thoroughly debunk your other claims with plenty sources and evidence (as I hope they do).
As it’s a good thing to educate people.
But I just pointed to the most staggeringly ridiculous one showing you’re pretty far gone.
You need a lot of work and studying.
Too early in the day and too hot, I have other work to do.

It was also fascist.

LOL
you certainly didn’t fall for American propaganda.
IDK what the people using the idiotic term ‘leftists’ to describe themselves mean by it, but they usually aren’t left.
I think you’re far from figuring out the truth.

desperately

Yes I don’t know how people survived before door cameras?
It’s like these people complaining about Bezos but always find an excuse to keep using Amazon.

5.5 percent decline

People who want to visit that cancer country have no political awareness hence these neglectable numbers.
Like the vulgar crowd going to the tourist trap that is Dubai know nothing about what an awful backward and evil shithole the emiRats are.

Yes, some american economist says so guys, checkmate.

And that was what got him killed since he turned on the genociders which made them furious.
That fact doesn’t get attention.
No, let’s focus on the grifter woman.

Well that’s not surprising.
There are only 2 poles, the north pole and the south pole.
How big can that country be?

Some doctors (mine also) started charging 10 euro extra if you don’t show up.
I think that’s fair since there is a shortage of doctors and it happens a lot causing long waiting times for others to get an appointment.
Had it recently when I got confused on the date.
Offered to pay the next time but he said I normally always show up so he let it be and asked the normal ridiculous 1 euro charge.
I like my doctor.

“officials say” LOL
All it takes is to go to an Iranian outlet, at least they’re reliable.
And those say the US can take the Iranian proposal or fuck off.
Losers can’t make demands.

Can he speak with daddy’s dick in his face?
The most embarrassing of EU vassals.

They get billions upon billions, that then for a big part end up in some corrupt politician’s pockets.
Somehow not big news in our objective press that now Andriy Yermak got arrested. Inconvenient?
Our European economy already wrecked from the US terrorists blowing up Nordstream.
All EU countries now stealing pension and other social welfare money to pay for that and the already increased NATO norm.
And all this for a lost cause and solely for the benefit of the americans

Panem et circenses

great

“shocking violent”

Drama queens

The USSA can take it or leave it.
Losers can’t make demands.