Life is not a balance sheet, Christie Malry. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng209/resources/impact-on-nhs-workforce-and-resources-pdf-14499743609797 https://

Life is not a balance sheet, Christie Malry. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng209/resources/impact-on-nhs-workforce-and-resources-pdf-14499743609797 https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng209/resources/impact-on-n... > Smoking-related illness is estimated to cost the NHS £2.6 billion a year https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/01/nhs-long-term-plan-will-help-problem-drinkers-and-smokers/ https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/01/nhs-long-term-plan-will-h... > Alcohol-related harm is estimated to cost the NHS in England £3.5 billion every year. If we look exclusively at numbers, prohibition would save money. If that's all we care about, try that out - oh, the Americans did, and it wrecked their country and filled it with gangsters, because no amount of trying to stop people drinking actually stopped people drinking, and normal people having to pretend they weren't going to drink, but secretly really really needing it and finding criminals to supply them with drink built out an entire parallel black economy and gave gangsters huge amounts of money and power. If we're looking at saving money, maybe just kill the long-term disabled and elderly? Easy win for saving money! That's all that matters, after all.