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New IEA research that finds the UK will be paying £23 billion in ‘sin taxes’ next year has featured in The Sunday Express. The article references the reports findings on how smoking, eating and drinking to excess may be bad for your health, but it is good news for the taxman. HMRC generates billions of ... Continue reading

New IEA research that finds the UK will be paying £23 billion in ‘sin taxes’ next year has featured in City AM. The article references the report's findings that the UK government will make a total of £24.7 billion from so-called "sin taxes" by 2018, more than offsetting the cost smokers, drinkers and the obese ... Continue reading

New IEA research that finds the UK will be paying £23 billion in ‘sin taxes’ next year has featured in The Telegraph. The article quotes the report's calculations that smoking is worth almost £15 billion to the public purse because of the tax revenue and the savings from smokers' early deaths. The cost of smoking ... Continue reading

New IEA research that finds the UK will be paying £23 billion in 'sin taxes' next year has featured in The Sun on Sunday. The article quotes the reports findings that alcohol, smoking and obesity taken together provide savings for The Treasury. Smoking provides a net benefit to the public purse to the tune of ... Continue reading

Chris Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs has written for CapX on alcohol-related deaths. In his article Chris argues that contrary to the claims of the health lobby, alcohol-related deaths have been declining in recent years. Furthermore he argues their assertion that the introduction of minimum alcohol pricing would dramatically ... Continue reading