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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:36:51 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

I haven't refused to add in anything, I'm just quoting the official NHS
figures.


Indeed: the truth, but not the whole truth. Apart from costs to the NHS
illness and disabilities in general, including smoking-related illness
and disabilities in particular, cost society in other ways: time lost off
work by the afflicted, and those looking after them, costs to local
authority social services, and so on.

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