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.
Yes, everyone eventually succumbs to something and dies. But it is simple fact that horrible lifestyle choices like smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse result in chronic illness that is outrageously expensive to treat and lasts decades. Live healthy, and you stand an excellent chance of living a long life with a much shorter period of illness at the very end.
I work in healthcare (emergency medicine) and I see this stuff every day. The costs of personal lifestyle choices and the burden it puts on our healthcare system are mind boggling.
Yes, everyone eventually succumbs to something and dies. But it is simple fact that horrible lifestyle choices like smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse result in chronic illness that is outrageously expensive to treat and lasts decades. Live healthy, and you stand an excellent chance of living a long life with a much shorter period of illness at the very end.
I work in healthcare (emergency medicine) and I see this stuff every day. The costs of personal lifestyle choices and the burden it puts on our healthcare system are mind boggling.