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The early death of smokers tends to save a long, expensive period of end-of-life care. I believe smoking deaths reduce health care costs, ironically enough.
by theonemind 2y ago
The early death of smokers tends to save a long, expensive period of end-of-life care. I believe smoking deaths reduce health care costs, ironically enough.
- stackskipton 2y agoIt does, there is even a study on it. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9321534/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9321534/ Smokers also help keep pension/social security costs down since they pay into it but don't collect out of it or do for much shorter period.
- danielbln 2y agoThat study is almost 30 year old, has there been more current research? I also wonder if externalities like trauma on friends/family are factored in, I could imagine there are some transitive effects?