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Smoking has the benefit of lessening the demand for Social Security benefits as smokers die off early. Is it worth the costs in medical care for cancer? I don't know. I just wish smokers would quit throwing their butts all over creation.

I just wish smokers would quit throwing their butts all over creation.

Put the ashtrays back next to the entrance to the building and that shouldn't be a problem.

Smoking has the benefit of lessening the demand for Social Security benefits as smokers die off early. Is it worth the costs in medical care for cancer? I don't know.

Smokers are not a financial burden as you imply: Smoking-related healthcare costs are a pittance to overall healthcare costs (8% in my state of Maine).

If every smoker quit, healthcare costs would go down only temporarily and then rise above the amount you are complaining about now, because nonsmokers get sick too and for more years.

Smokers more than make up for their extra cost by dying (their choice-not yours) sooner; collecting less social security and pensions, and less time in nursing homes. The state tax on cigarettes is all gravy. This is all backed up by facts.

Smokers not only pay "their own damn bills," they pay the bills for a whole hell of a lot of nonsmokers as well. And they/we have since at least 1994 when taxes were a lot lower than now. The only way you can conclude that smokers cost society is to make the assumption that no one else ever gets sick, has an accident, or dies. You've been hornswoggled by the anti juggernaut.