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To: SheLion
I appreciate your concern, but when my time is up, it won't matter one iota if I ever smoked or not. Smoking is my only vice and I LOVE it!

I hope you're independently wealthy, because I don't want to have to pay for your healthcare. Nor do I want my insurance premiums to go up because of your personal weakness and irresponsibility.

177 posted on 08/01/2006 1:47:17 PM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker
I hope you're independently wealthy, because I don't want to have to pay for your healthcare. Nor do I want my insurance premiums to go up because of your personal weakness and irresponsibility.

You are another one that has been easily swayed.  And oh yes!  I pay my own health care thank you.  If I get sick, NO one will have to pay for ME, and that's a fact!

However...............explain this:

Funny, smoking rates have dropped dramatically while health care costs have risen dramatically at the same time. It seems to me that the correlation PROVES that a lack of smokers causes higher health care costs!

200 posted on 08/02/2006 5:44:00 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: Alter Kaker
Here's one for you.  So maybe you can calm down about blaming smokers for everything!

Taxpayers saddled with obesity costs

Taxpayers foot the doctor’s bill for more than half of obesity-related medical costs, which reached a total of $75 billion in 2003, according to a new study.

The public pays about $39 billion a year -- or about $175 per person -- for obesity through Medicare and Medicaid programs, which cover sicknesses caused by obesity including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, several types of cancer and gallbladder disease.


201 posted on 08/02/2006 5:46:16 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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