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To: SheLion
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!

Health care costs have also risen as the number of pirates worldwide has declined. I think you'd have a more credible case arguing that the lack of pirates has increased costs. The costs of treating a person with a smoking related malady are known, high and increasing.

221 posted on 08/02/2006 7:01:59 AM 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
The costs of treating a person with a smoking related malady are known, high and increasing.

There, I fixed that statement.

In all actuality, over the long run, smokers cost less to government and cost less in health care than nonsmokers.
Studies have proven this fact.
You want to pay more for health care? Get all smokers to stop smoking.

223 posted on 08/02/2006 7:08:51 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Alter Kaker
Health care costs have also risen as the number of pirates worldwide has declined. I think you'd have a more credible case arguing that the lack of pirates has increased costs. The costs of treating a person with a smoking related malady are known, high and increasing.

You are not even taking into consideration the thousands of uninsured Illegals living in the states that WE have to pay for!  You can't blame the total ills of the world on smokers.

246 posted on 08/02/2006 9:35:42 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: Alter Kaker

I'm still waiting for a response to my post, or better yet an answer to the question I posed to you.............


258 posted on 08/02/2006 10:42:30 AM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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