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Originally Posted by JJIII
Seems to me the the gubers get tax income from the time the tobacco seeds are sold all the way through to the estate taxes due when you die from lung cancer. Pretty good scheme!  |
While that may be true, tobacco related disease costs big bucks to the government for the uninsured/underinsured as well as big buck to you and me for increased health care premiums for the additional costs to to care for the insured smokers.
Again, there's no way to run the numbers on this accurately. But we would be better off if smoking would go the way of the dodo bird.