Looks like the price of cigarettes is about to rocket.

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What is that revenue stream? Is it so big these days? As far as I can see there are far less smokers about than ever. We must have turned the corner on that and thus the government must be taking less revenue.

I've read that 77% of the price of 20 goes to the exchequer. That equates to about £11 billion a year. A tidy sum.