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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:

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.



> I understand that people don't like smoking, but that doesn't excuse the loose way that organizations throw around numbers about this topic.

And they never give a source so a person can fact check the numbers.

Luckily, in this case we know we're reading dishonest propaganda, since they make no mention of the revenue side of it.

> 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.

Preach brother.




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