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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
If only it were that simple. Smoking doesn't always kill you, but it can give you long-term illness. Now that is a cost to the health-care system. A non-smoking, health-oriented old person is less expensive than a chain-smoking, health-indifferent old person.
I haven't seen the data, but I wouldn't be surprised if smoking and poor dietary habits cause more burden to the health-care system even if these people have a shorter life span.
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I do yearn for simplicity but she is an elusive lover.
Here is a link to one study:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22995659/
Be warned, I am always dubious of findings from one solitary study.
I do enjoy the fact that it supports part of my world view.
We use laws to ridiculously micromanage things.