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Originally Posted by driveway
2. Pulmonary disease treatment (not including lung cancer) costs in Canada exceeded 5.7 billion dollars in direct costs and another 6.72 billion in indirect costs. Granted, not all of these are smoking-related, but a significant portion of them are.
Source: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/...agisme-eng.php
3. Total taxes collected from Tobacco in Canada, provincial and federal combined in 2007-2008 were 6.8 billion. This does not cover the combined direct and indirect costs of pulmonary disease treatment in Canada.
Source: http://www.smoke-free.ca/factsheets/pdf/totaltax.pdf
4. Reducing the number of smokers will reduce health-care costs. Something that every Canadian pays for. |
Hate to break it to you, but everyone has to die of something. All old people cost the health care system ridiculous amounts of money.
Whether you are dying of smoking related disease at 60 or liver cancer at 80 you will cost the heath care system a lot of money.
I had one grandfather who smoked his entire life and got lung cancer at 85. Within 3 or 4 months he was dead. Yes it cost the health care system money to treat him.
I had a second grandfather who never smoked. He died at age 98. For the last ten years of his life he had been in and out of hospital with just about every problem you can imagine.
Who do you think cost the health care system more?