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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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Ummm no they don't. Smoking related illness costs states shit loads of money. In fact I think it's at the top of the list. This was from 98.
http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/...6/smoking.html
72.7 billion a year is what it cost in the US alone and it costs each state a shit load as well.
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She pointed out that the 1993 bill for California alone amounted to $8.7 billion, the highest total in the nation, followed by New York, with $6.6 billion in smoking-related disease costs. Wyoming, at $80 million in 1993, had the lowest expenditure for illness caused by cigarette smoking.