Smokers are actually the least costly in healthcare costs because they die of heart attack and stroke at such a high rate, most often right around retirement ag

Smokers are actually the least costly in healthcare costs because they die of heart attack and stroke at such a high rate, most often right around retirement age, they die before the most costly age related problems come up, and smoking in itself disqualifies people from many common procedures and surgery. You could claim their earlier death causes social and cultural deficits, but from a pure financial point smokers are a boon. Especially once you factor in the income from sin taxes that usually far exceed a person's lifetime medical costs.