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Originally Posted by Deviaant
It's a slippery slope. I'd argue cigarettes are a much larger drain on our system than hard drugs are. So do you confine smokers as well? Who makes those decisions?
And I still argue that we need to treat the reason a person turned to hard drugs and not only the drug addiction.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10311608
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To investigate the empirical basis for this view, we estimated publicly financed health care expenditure attributable to smoking for the Canadian province of Ontario and compared it to tobacco taxes paid by Ontario smokers. Both initial estimates and the results of sensitivity analyses performed on key assumptions and parameters of the estimation methodology rejected the hypothesized existence of a financial externality arising from smokers' health care utilization.
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Smokers cover their own costs on the tax/pack easily IMO.