If smoking makes health care more costly then health care cost should be at their lowest historical rates since the 50's, since smoking has decreased per capita since then.
A bill refusing tax benefits because of smoking would, on its face, be unconstitutional because it denies equal treatment.
In 1964 when the Surgeon General Terry said that cigarettes are a "causal" factor in lung cancer, heart diseases etc. almost everyone smoked cigarettes.
Anyone who did not smoke was considered "queer." (No Virginia, I mean strange, odd). Now after almost a half century of anti-smoking jihad cigarette smoking has been significantly reduced to probably 3 in 10. Smoking is no longer glamorous, socially acceptable, convenient or cheap.
Question: Now that the smoking war has been won and fewer people smoke, how come the incidences of death by lung cancer, heart diseases have increased, adjusted for population growth? Huh? Huh?
Maybe we owe Joe Camel an apology.
If smoking makes health care more costly then health care cost should be at their lowest historical rates since the 50's, since smoking has decreased per capita since then.
So the person who willingly chooses to end up with the lung on the right, is NOT "less healthy" by their own choice?
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