I remember a professor talking about the tobacco industry trials and they were talking about damages that the tobacco companies should pay to the state for incr

I remember a professor talking about the tobacco industry trials and they were talking about damages that the tobacco companies should pay to the state for increased healthcare costs due to lung cancer, and he said that the supremely ironic thing was that people who die from lung cancer at 45 have much less lifetime medical spending than people who die from most everything else at old age. He said exactly what you did, that people forget we all die of something, and the older we get, the more likely we are to have repeated long hospital stays or need long term care. Obviously that isn't to say it's good for people to die young from lung cancer, but analyzing anything medical from a money perspective is tricky.