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Argues for cutting duties on tobacco and alcohol, claiming seven tobacco duty rises since 2020 left rolling tobacco duty 115% higher while tobacco duty revenue fell from £10.4bn to £7.9bn and legal cigarette sales dropped 46% (2021–25).
Contends that the NHS’s claimed need for a 4% real annual budget increase to ‘stand still’ is commonly attributed to Baumol’s cost disease, and discusses how rising wages and productivity differences affect healthcare costs.