[annelizly]

ROFLMAO!!!!!

[cpdiii]

After decades of imposing billions in public health costs on taxpayers, the tobacco industry was finally forced to pay for its sins. But the practical effect was to make states partners with the very industry those states were ostensibly trying to punish

Actually smoking reduces total health care costs. Most smokers do not die of cancer. However, they do die very efficiently from hypertension, Congestive Heart Failure and other smoking related disease. If you look at the total health care dollars for smokers it is less than for the non smokers. Non smokers have a tendency to have hang around for a long time in the end stages of life and that is expensive.

Smoking and the lottery are a tax on the stupid.