John Stumbles wrote:
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.

Quite possibly John, all I'm asking is for Dennis to tell me how much this
cost is. I doubt that it is £5.5 billion a year.

On the other side we should deduct the pension & elderly care costs because
smokers die younger in general, and we should deduct the cost of dementure
care - smokers rarely suffer from Alzheimer's or Parkinsons - facts that
have been suppressed.


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