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because people die younger.
Jerk! What about the medicare costs associated with smokers.
I really feel freepers start out in this world missing a few screws, and it just gets worse as they get older.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Cold-blooded bean counters. Does that sound like anyone we know?
TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)claiming they need to recoup health care cost related to smoking. I thought that was disingenuous. If smokers die early from cancer, copd and heart disease then they don't end up in long term facilities with costly age related diseases like Alzheimer's.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)Even if for only a year or two the costs often exceed a million dollars. Probably much more than a person dying of old age in their own home... Nursing homes while expensive don't hold a candle to the high cost of cancer treatments..
TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)about that man whose wife died of smoking at 42. lol I had to listen to a lecture 5 years ago during an employment health physical that, "Not only the OLD die of smoking". I was 58 at the time. "Well, maybe not". lol I have worked in a nursing home where they tried to get residents in their 70s and 80s to stop smoking, because "it will cause them to die". How long did they think they should live? 200 years old??????
Idiots. The only thing I am looking forward to Medicare in one year (if Republicans don't get their way) is so I don't have to PAY for health insurance that I have no intention of using.