Re: Hail the Fatty Heroes !
Smokers get emphysema, which can be a long-lasting and very expensive malady, more often.
Smokers get lung cancer, which can be a long-lasting and very expensive malady, more often.
Smokers get dementia, which can be a long-lasting and very expensive malady, earlier and more often.
Smoking causes people to discard butts in the street, which is disgusting and dirty and requires money to clean up.
Smoking caused an economic cost of the loss of business from people unwilling to sit in restaurants and cafes - especially with children - because of the smoke. The loss is almost certainly as large as the so-called benefit of having the smokers there - most of whom remained of course after the ban.
This is not taking into account what a dying smoker is doing to their children, economically and psychologically.
I am certain that a smoke-free country would be better off, especially in the long term, than a smoking country.
We shall see the evidence of this when China's smokers reach a certain age and start to die in massive numbers, slowly and expensively, or cheaply and horribly depending on the state of their state at the time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
