Pan, if this was all about the money they would probably encurage smoking as it was generating a decent amount of tax revenue. Revenue, that politicans can play with now, not future health care cost reductions that a politican won't even be able to use to one's advantage.
This has nothing to do with money as far as our govenment is concerned. Politicians are preasured into these decicions by people who wan't to put all of us in bubbles (oops I mean - personal spherical saftey devices) so we can never be hurt by the world.
Once enough momentum is gathered for any cause then the lawyers come in to make their money. So you are right in a sense, eventually it becomes about the money among other things.
Of course it's swell that we will get lower healthcare costs as a result of these measures and that's how all the sane people justify the acceptance of such actions. BUT, the issue of rising healthcare costs is a symptom of a broken healthcare system. If anything should regulate what a person eats or smokes it should be their insurance bill - well, their common sense would help too...
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