There are some funny cost sources in there. Tobacco enforcement? OK, but I mean, that's not the cost of tobacco, that's the cost of your distaste for tobacco. Lost productivity and lost years of life? Yes, I suppose it's true that you don't get to benefit from my productivity when I'm dead, but that's kind of an odd way to look at it.
In fact, yes, smokers do die sooner, which is why they actually cost less:
In fact, yes, smokers do die sooner, which is why they actually cost less:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748...
I understand that people don't like smoking, but that doesn't excuse the loose way that organizations throw around numbers about this topic.
It's instructive to watch the way people reason when they're convinced they've got the moral high ground. There's almost nothing they won't say.