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Except tobacco use does not increase healthcare costs and in fact reduces them, due to people dying earlier and more quickly.
by rsj_hn 5y ago
Except tobacco use does not increase healthcare costs and in fact reduces them, due to people dying earlier and more quickly.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoPerhaps for the age 65+ risk pool under Medicare (mostly taxpayer funded healthcare), but probably not for the under age 65 risk pools. Or at least I am not aware of tobacco causing significant mortality before age 65.
- rsj_hn 5y agoOverall. This is not hard to verify with some googling -- I posted some links in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005498