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It'll be interesting to see if these new dopamine fads play out differently. My government puts a lot of effort (money) into making people quit smoking because
by eksemplar 9y ago
It'll be interesting to see if these new dopamine fads play out differently.
My government puts a lot of effort (money) into making people quit smoking because smokers are extremely expensive on public healthcare. Our goals are 4% by 2025, but even in countries with less of a business case for health, there are still huge campaigns against smoking.
Facebook, Reddit, candy crush, instagram and so on aren't really seen as health risks. They mostly occupy the masses, and no one wants to put money into stopping that. At least not yet.
- emerged 9y agoYeah, at least not nearly with the same momentum as smoking etc. But i do think the risks and costs of these new addictions are in the collective conciousness. So it's just a matter of time until a rebellion of mass scale IMO.
- Simon_says 9y agoWhich government is yours? Everything I've read is that smokers have lower total healthcare costs since they die earlier and tend to have sudden deaths instead of lingering around using healthcare services. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-obesity-and-smoking-do-not-cost-health-care-systems-money/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-...
- eksemplar 9y agoDanish, smokers are 8,3 billion DKR more costly a year than non smokers. http://www.fyens.dk/modules/mobile/article?articleid=3106811 http://www.fyens.dk/modules/mobile/article?articleid=3106811 The municipality where I work operates in a 3 billion yearly budget by comparison. So you could run more two and a half cities with 50.000 people for a year for the money smokers cost us.
- Simon_says 9y agoPer year, yea. But smokers live shorter lives. That's why I referenced the lifetime total expenditures.
- eksemplar 9y agoYou misunderstand, it's what they cost extra compared to non-smokers, agelengths included.
- Simon_says 9y agoWell, maybe. I can't read whatever language that article is in, but I Google Translated it, and it appears to only talk about per year costs. If you disagree, would it be possible to give a quote from the article?