On Feb 12, 9:58�pm, wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:47:38 -0800 (PST), "

wrote:
your choice to smoke effects everyones health care costs

Smokers actually have lower overall medical costs and medicare in
particular,
They usually refuse treatment until they are almost dead because they
would have to stop smoking and die early enough that they don't spend
much medicare money.
The people who live a long time and die of "natural causes" at 80 and
90 are the ones who suck up most of the medicare money. They get
cataract surgeries, joint replacements, transplants and a host of
miracle drugs at $10 a pill.

gee take all the damage second hand smoke does, and friends and
realtives who died long painful deaths from things like bladder
cancer, caused by smoking.

it would be interesting to see the exact statistics on this.

but in human terms, well i still miss my mom who died 10 years ago,
smoking caused her death..........

she was only 65