A question for the smokers here expressing outrage about this: when you eventually wind up with COPD, heart disease, or one of the several cancers caused by tobacco use, will you pay your own astronomical healthcare costs out of pocket, or will you force us nonsmokers to pay for your choice to destroy your own body via our insurance?
Just curious.
Hey, guess what, when non-smokers get old, they have health problems too. That “smoker-healthcare” claim is a joke, and always has been.
If you want to go down that road, then let’s include candy, fast food, meat, mercury laced fish, active people, couch potatoes, etc. etc.
Some people will never be happy unless every other person in this country lives EXACTLY as they want them to.
It’s fine if you don’t smoke, God bless you, but that gives you ZERO right to inflict your life choices on anyone else.
Are you non-smokers willing to pay double social security taxes so that a nurse can change your diapers and wipe your butt for your last 20 years?
I would.
Just as I'm expected to pay for the morbidly obese, anorexics, alcoholics, people who engage in risky sports, jockeys who could get trampled by a horse, and busybody pecksniffs who routinely get the crap beaten out of them by normal people.
Remarkable isn’t it - that life expectancy increased during the period when smokers comprised 75% of adults?
YOUR insurance?
Insurance is no longer ‘shared risk for unexpected illness & injury’ - the so-called ‘plans’ now include procedures that would have been declared as ‘elective’ in earlier decades i.e.- IVF and regular pregnancy, contraception, abortion,viagra, stomach stapling, sex changes, joint replacement.
All the conditions you mention occur in non-smokers BTW.
Neither. We will go on a week-long shooting spree, taking out as many nonsmokers as possible.
Not smoking cigarettes is VERY unhealthy.
A question for the statists here who support restrictions such as this: when you are old and feeble, suffering from alzheimers and must wear diapers and be fed by someone else and totally dependent upon others for the simplest of tasks, will you pay your own astronomical health care costs out of pocket, or will you force us smokers, who you people claim live shorter lives, to pay for your choice to out live your usefulness via our insurance?
Just curious.