Tobacco Duty

[Tinpot]

On a visit to a small local museum yesterday I saw some small booklets of tokens displayed in a cabinet that were for Tobacco Duty Relief. It is something I have never heard of before and don’t know if it applied to cigarettes and/or pipe tobacco?

 

[mw0njm.]

About this object
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1948/may/12/tobacco-duty-relief-tokens


A booklet of partly used Tobacco Duty Relief Tokens issued to L J Baldwin of 6 West Park Road, Kew Gardens, Richmond to be used for the purchase of tobacco. These were issued to pensioners following a steep increase in Tobacco Duty. 1958

 

[Stokkie]

Tobacco Duty Relief Tokens (Hansard, 12 May 1948)

Tobacco Duty Relief Tokens (Hansard, 12 May 1948)

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Tobacco Duty Relief Tokens​

HC Deb 12 May 1948 vol 450 cc223-4W223W

§Sir W. Smiles
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the approximate cost to the country of the concessions on tobacco and cigarettes to old age pensioners; and what would be the estimated cost of similar concessions to disabled ex-Service men and women in receipt of a disablement pension.

§Sir S. Cripps
The total value of the 2s. Tobacco Duty relief tokens at present issued to pensioners who qualify for this relief is about £7½million a year. On the same basis, the cost of extending the concession to ex-Service men and women in receipt of a disablement pension would be about £3 million, if the necessary machinery could be set up, which is I fear not practicable.

 

[Stokkie]

So it looks like the tokens could be used to purchase pipe tobacco and cigarettes.

 

[mikejee]

The calculated figures of course omitted the extra medical costs incurred by the tobacco consumed