PART 4.
Economic aspects of smoking

• Expenses of the smokers
  Amounts spent to cigarettes HUF/year (2010)
  

  No. of cigarettes smoked per day	Price of a packet of cigarettes /20 pieces/
  	500 HUF	650 HUF	800 HUF
  10	91 250	118 625	146 000
  20	182 500	237 250	292 000
  30	273 750	355 875	438 000

  
  
• Measures of the revenue tax in the EU's countries (%) - (January 1, 2006)

  	Spain	64.2
  	France	64.0
  	United Kingdom	62.8
  	Germany	62.2
  	Portugal	61.0
  	Portugal	60.8
  	Ireland	60.3
  	Ireland	59.0
  	Austria	58.7
  	Italy	58.4
  	HUNGARY	58.2
  	Belgium	47.6
  	Slovenia	57.5

  
  
• State incomes from tax of tobacco products: approx. 244 billion HUF a year! (2004)
  
  
• 2004: SMOKING-CAUSED HEALTH (expenses connected with the treatment of diseases resulting from smoking, the costs of ambulant and hospital care, sick pay, medicine subsidy, premature disability, untimely death, gratuity), FIRE AND OTHER DAMAGES TOTAL APPROX. 343-358 BILLION HUF A YEAR!
  
  
• 2010: State incomes: 360 billion HUF; Damages: 441 billion HUF; Losses: 80 billion HUF.

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