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Originally Posted by blankall
I really don't know how you can conclude that the smoker was some kind of drain on society. Especially as smoker litterally pay thousands of dollars a year in taxes by buying cigarettes.
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I was saying the same thing to a friend of mine just a few days ago. Really, if we wanted to improve the fiscal state of our provinces, what we really need to do is PROMOTE MORE SMOKING. Or something else that causes something like heart disease. Something where people die immediately of a heart attack or something. It's when people need 10 to 20 years of hospice care like my great uncle who was in a government nursing care unit from the age of 83 to 103. Not that I begrudge Bill his 20 years of nursing care, but extending peoples lives beyond the point that they can physically take care of themselves is going to be costly.