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71 posted on 02/01/2009 2:46:10 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

He is off to watch the Super Bowl. LOL


73 posted on 02/01/2009 2:49:00 PM PST by dforest (life is now good again....he has been inaugurated)
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To: Old Professer
Weasel wording on his part.

Young people who are considering taking up the smoking habit need to be prepared to pay an enormous cost for their habit over their lifetime. When inflation is added in, the actual cost per pack for a young person who takes up smoking today could well exceed $60 to $70 per pack over their lifetime.

The cost of almost $40 per pack based on today’s prices takes into account such costs as the cost of the cigarettes themselves, taxes, increased cost of life and property insurance, increased medical care and lost earnings due to smoking related factors.

Interestingly, the study found that cigarette smokers themselves bear the brunt of smoking expenses. Smokers will end up paying approximately $33 per pack (based on today’s prices) with their families paying $5.44 per pack and society as a whole paying just $1.44 per pack. The reason that society pays as little as it does is because smokers tend to die younger and don’t live to draw as much from Social Security or Medicare.

Health Insurance .com

It is not anything to do with public costs at all.

89 posted on 02/01/2009 3:59:10 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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