What are the odds that a smoker will get cancer, as opposed to a non-smoker?
What will a smoker with cancer cost society (Medicaid, medicare), as opposed to a non-smoker?
The GAO said that smokers contribute something like 1.42/$ when you figure it all in.
Ok, I am off to bed. Done ranting now.
I've no answer to that Q, but I will ask you one in turn, General:
''Which one, a smoker or a socialist, in the long term, will cost society more?
I would say, w/o any fear of contradiction historically, that the socialist will be far more costly, likely 6, 7, even 10 orders of magnitude, if successful in his/her/its endeavours.
''Don't you even think about watching your flank; you advance, you attack, you push the battle into the Krauts' lines. Let those bastards worry about **their** flank. Some idiot a long time ago started worrying about his flanks, and we've been stuck with that notion ever since.'' -- General George S. Patton Jr.