[Drango]

The reality is that smoking is highly correlated with lower social-economic status. Tax payers are subsidizing cigarettes purchases... then they subsidize the health care when smokers get sick.

As everyone knows smokers die younger, so the costs are held down in that the subsides end at an early age.

[publius911]

It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
Hasn't been said, so I'll say it.

Welfare must be for subsistence level survival only, and cover only necessities; NO discretionary spending.

Anything else is goverment sanctioned mugging. And the elected criminals don't even have the decency to wear hoodies.