[cherry]

smokers just don't "die"...they often go thru years of having COPD, on oxygen, not able to work, using govt services frequently,and then many get lung cancer and go thru surgery/chemo/radiation...

this "dying" is not quick and its not cheap...

so no...we shouldn't encourage smoking because not only is it killing people but its costing the taxpayers BILLIONS....

[867V309]

so no...we shouldn't encourage smoking because not only is it killing people but its costing the taxpayers BILLIONS....

You have lost the thread, my friend, when you judge behavior by how much it costs taxpayers. That is the road to tyranny.

The answer, of course, is individual responsibility. If an indigent smoker gets lung cancer, it should be the responsibility of the government to make his death comfortable, nothing more.

[Mears]

“so no...we shouldn’t encourage smoking because not only is it killing people but its costing the taxpayers BILLIONS.... “

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Prove it——where did you get that info? It makes no sense.

Billions?

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[lovesdogs]

I ended up in the hospital due to a bad reaction to new blood pressure meds. My roommate had one of those sleep apnea machines and many late night visitors. My annoyance turned to sympathy when her doctor walked in and announced that she had lung cancer. You could just tell that he thought she deserved it since she was still smoking,