"Between 10,000 and 13,000 people die early in New Jersey each year from tobacco," Downs said. "Before they die, they wrack up huge health care costs. The numbers are so high they become incomprehensible to the average person."
They also lose all their accumulated earnings into the social security trust fund.
These are people who have paid thousands of dollars for health care which they never received in return.
These are also people who have nothing else to loose.