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Originally Posted by blankall
1) Everyone has to die of something. All my relatives who were non-smokers spent the last 10 years of their life in some kind of medical care.
2) With about $5/pack in taxes, a pack a day smoker pays a lot of extra taxes already. In fact, once you figure in corporate taxes, I'd bet that adds up to close to or even more than the 1 billion you are claiming smokers cost the health care system. That would make smokers the only group in Canada that pays for their own medical treatment....them and alcoholics.
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Tobacco use represents a substantial cost to the Canadian health care system, and to the Canadian economy. Total direct health care costs linked to tobacco use are over $4.4 billion per year. When indirect cost (e.g. lost wages, productivity, etc.) are included, the total annual economic cost of tobacco to the Canadian economy is more than $17 billion.
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http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/consult...onsult-eng.php
Last time I checked 17 billion is greater than 7 billion. But nice try.