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> from selling addictive poison that has ZERO up side. I can't remember where, but I saw a study that showed banning cigarettes would only make healthcare cost
by esaym 8y ago
> from selling addictive poison that has ZERO up side.
I can't remember where, but I saw a study that showed banning cigarettes would only make healthcare costs go up as people would me living much longer lives....
- thinkingkong 8y agoI suppose another way to save money on healthcare would be to not have it at all.
- SilasX 8y agoWell, yeah. But we’re actually trying to optimize for some combination of quality of life, length of life, spending on death prevention. You can trivially optimize any one of those individually, but that would be ... bad. But yes, in a sense, smoking bans are making an implicit assumption that the gain in quality of life is far outweighed by the shortening of it.
- hannasanarion 8y agoAnd? So what? Are we out of bricks to build hospitals with? More non-dead people also means more workers, more taxes revenue, more consumption, more growth.