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>Why should I pay for someone's healthcare when I live healthy and all I see that others are smoking? In the EU (I have no idea about America) tobacco is heavi
by dkiebd 1y ago
>Why should I pay for someone's healthcare when I live healthy and all I see that others are smoking?
In the EU (I have no idea about America) tobacco is heavily (and I mean heavily in some countries) taxed because of this.
- pkaye 1y agoThere are tobacco taxes in the US but it varies by state. Also it seems US is in the lower range on smoking rate compared to many other OECD countries. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-2024_918d8db3-en/full-report/tobacco-and-alcohol-consumption_b1061362.html https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-202...
- AngryData 1y agoAlso tobacco users cost less in healthcare because they far more often die right around retirement age, never incurring the far more expensive age related healthcare. Being a smoker also disqualifies them from many common procedures, and also the sin taxes smokers pay on tobacco often exceeds their entire lifetime medical costs. People who blame smokers for healthcare costs are just looking for someone to blame because they either don't want to admit, or don't realize, that their 90 year old granny taking 30 medications a day, having hip replacements, and 3rd round of cancer costs as much in healthcare per year as most people do over 2 or 3 decades.
- whimsicalism 1y agowe don’t smoke nearly as much as europeans