“I wonder if the study offsets the cost of treating smoking problems with the healthcare savings from early death rates.”
I read somewhere that smokers get 1-2 major diseases, but non smokers get 3-4. Most smokers will live long enough to make a major contribution to SS, etc, but not long enough to collect. They also don’t spend a decade in the memory unit.
Until recently, most lung cancer patient were just sent home to die. How expensive can that be?
“Until recently, most lung cancer patient were just sent home to die.”
Besides they are hypocrites. Ain’t no money to be made for the industry doing that.