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Cost of smoking to East Lancashire's economy calculated as £163million
The shocking cost of East Lancashire’s chronic smoking problem has been revealed for the first time as £163million per year. This figure includes £33.5million alone in lost productivity from workers taking smoking breaks and £28.8million from smoking-related sick days.
Cost of Quantative Easing to the UK so far (as at Oct 2011) 275 billion Pounds
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee last week voted to increase the size of its asset purchase programme, financed by the issuance of central bank reserves, by £75bn to a total of £275bn.
You decide where your truth is when they tell you there has to be cutbacks. But you know the banks are happy because where else can banks and speculators make such a mess of things and not have to pay the price.
Cost of the NHS 2011/12 is around £106 billion
The NHS employs more than 1.7m people. Of those, just under half are clinically qualified, including, 39,409 general practitioners (GPs), 410,615 nurses, 18,450 ambulance staff and 103,912 hospital and community health service (HCHS) medical and dental staff.
You decide where your truth is when they tell you there has to be cutbacks. But you know the banks are happy because where else can banks and speculators make such a mess of things and not have to pay the price.
