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OK CBRMALE you believe your way an i going to believe mine, as mine has been proved before my eyes as to what I'm talking about. to make it easier for you here is my take an on this i am 100% correct. my sister n laws father smoked 18 cigars a day. he smoked all his life as most did in his day an still do yet today. when he died he was old but in good health, he just past a way in his sleep. now on the other side to this. my hubby's grandma never did any of these so called nasty habits of drinking , smoking. or the like she was a some what health nut if you will. from way back for some reason, [she is the only one in family this way] when she died she had cancer. heart problems, and very high blood pressure . she went to her Dr. regular an also seen many specialist in her latter yrs. do to her health problems. at the end she also had Alzheimer's in late stages. now here is the clincher to all this ,you don't have to believe it but i do as i seen an know these people. my sister n laws father who supposedly had the nasty dirty habits. he died at 88 an at times when we would all go on walks with him visiting an such. we had to make quite a stride to keep up with him at times... now while he lived a life to be 88 yrs. old the grandmother who was so health consider an what not died at 66. these was two completely different people from a totally different family, none were related in any way. the older one lived a full life an didn't go to the Dr. hardly any only for a flu shot or what ever. but only in latter yrs. while not counting the cancer an such, she done everything right an died a early death, when you consider their age. so like i said early on every one is different an things that bother some never bothers others.. these are only two people i can quote more if needed [as I'm sure you can as well to prove your point as to what you think.] not related family wise, have past away while UN healthy while others with so called nasty habit's. have an still are out living a normal life. my hubby's grandfather also smoked an drank quite a lot all his life as well. he cut timber all his life an owned a saw mill. of which usually had many chemicals for treating wood around an such, he past away at 79 yrs of age with no health problems also. the death certificate says died of natural causes, so fig. why the nasty habits people out lived the others when these people never knew each other. i also know some smokers alive today that do not have any health problems an have been smoking quite a while my gramdpa is one of them. he smokes 4 paks aday an he is 77 yrs old. while at the same time i also know a few who do have health issues. but its un related to smoking, it is other thing an out of respect for them i wont say here. so like i said before what hurts one doesnt hurt the other.
I worked for a public hospital for two years and I saw some dreadful things... The other thing I say is that the people I saw who were dying and on their last were costing us, the non-smokers, a fortune to keep alive or try to cure. Although I was in a senior position in that hospital, and I learned that when it was 'self inflicted', perhaps the treatment was not as fastidious as it could have been.
Nonetheless, smoking costs society, yours and mine, a fortune beyond any taxes collected. You may think it's okay to pay inflated health insurance premiums to compensate, but I do not enjoy paying inflated taxes for such things. And remember this, no matter what taxes are paid on cigarettes, this does not come close to the health care costs incurred.