The cost of treating smoke related diseases is in the billions.
Printable View
The cost of treating smoke related diseases is in the billions.
you have to admit that smokers who do fall victim to smoking (because there are many who don't) pay their own way through the medical system.
In the states you gotta pay and in canada, they pay double.
1. they pay into out=r universal health care system like everyone else
2. they pay the greater portion of the cost of their vice in taxes that directly go to their health care when they are flagging from teh smoking.
bottom line is that the government does allow for some vices to be proliferate and others are not allowed.
the "war on drugs" demands some 50 or so billion dollars each year.
where does that go?
i'm not even sure there is that much drug consumed. It is probably more fiscally responsible to stop this war on drugs and start some other program aimed at stemming the problem of hopeless listless malaise in our societies. :)
Ah, the "war on drugs"...
I don't even wanna touch that can of worms...
OTOH, if smoking really does kill them, they will all die "early".... yielding a "windfall"/"bonanza" for the HealthCare and Social Security programs.
So, perhaps the gummint ought to pay people to smoke!????
Except in California, where they've found "better things to do with the money".Quote:
In the states you gotta pay and in canada, they pay double.
1. they pay into out=r universal health care system like everyone else
2. they pay the greater portion of the cost of their vice in taxes that directly go to their health care when they are flagging from teh smoking.
A largish chunk (if not all, by now) goes into the "Education" "budget"/sink-hole.
My favorite are the legal drugs you see advertized on television.
You know, the ones that give you blindness, constipation, insomnia, heart problems, loss of apetite, internal damage, etc.
and fix one small, often times social, problem.
arent drugs already legal? We just get to choose which ones we can keep in control because we produce them and sell them.
Not too many kids making viagra in their basements.
If it were up to me I would get rid of them all, even alchohol.
But its not up to me. They wont let me kill heroin dealers.....
How many kids start getting high from their own parents medicine cabinet?? answer: LOTS
The person that can make a "herbal" verison of viagra without the side effects and dependancy issues will make a fortune greater than anything in Medalene Cartel !
:D