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Originally Posted by Libertine
Things like smoking actually save money when it comes to health care, since people who die young tend to not need many of the costly types of care that come with getting older.
Someone who dies at age 60 from lung cancer or a heart attack is a whole lot cheaper than someone who reaches 90 and spends his last decade needing constant care because he has Alzheimer.
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the problem si that they don't just die... if someone smoked for 20 years and then just died one day while taking a shower, i would be the first to paint "enjoy a Marlboro" on my car.
they spend years getting cancer treatments and organ transplants. almost every form of cancer is treatable now and its expensive