Sounds like that'll relieve the finances by providing tax income at once and hospital costs in later years. Who pays the hospital costs in NZ? Is that practica

Sounds like that'll relieve the finances by providing tax income at once and hospital costs in later years. Who pays the hospital costs in NZ? Is that practically paid via the state budget or via separate insurance organisation(s), in which case smokers provide tax income to the state budget and increased costs to the insurance budgets (and ultimately the insured nonsmokers)?