So if it weren't for Brexit, I suppose British American Tobacco would also get a nice batch of taxpayer money?
Budgets are tight but still they find room for these silly expenditures, what tf are they doing.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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whaaat?! government supporting their people?! now i've heard of everything! /s
But it's a dying industry with no future and drunk boomers die off.
Weird how that sounds right for wine but not for cigarettes
Ah yes, because cannabis is evil, but let's fund the drug that's one of the biggest avoidable sources of death.
Funding education or research? Naah, but alcohol, of course, because we don't want science, we want alcoholics.