• SanguinePar
      1•4 months ago

      Thanks to taxes (81½% of the price is tax on average), smokers are currently making my government a profit, including all the cancer care. Old people need a lot of healthcare, so people dying of cancer saves a lot of healthcare cost in the long term.

      You been hanging out with Sir Humphrey? ;-)

        • @TaalnaziNederlands
          1•4 months ago

          Exactly, and the rhetoric “it pays for themselves” also doesn’t hold up, since there is still second hand and third hand smoke.