dennis@home wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in
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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.

No you aren't, you are being an arsehole.
If you wanted to know you could have asked without the abuse.
However being an arsehole you just couldn't manage it.

Can't answer the question huh? You don't have a clue do you?


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.

Even that is also only a half truth.. dementia , etc. sufferers tend
to stop smoking after they have it due to them being unable to
continue.

What? They can't remember where they left their fags?


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk