Here's something I overlooked, a report co-published by fakecharities ASH, Cancer Research UK and The British Heart Foundation last October:
...when "Smoking Kills" was published ten years ago the cost of smoking to the NHS in England was estimated to be up to £1.7 billion a year. Using NHS spending data this new report reveals this cost has risen by £1 billion despite a drop in the number of smokers.
The reason behind the continued rise is a combination of factors. These include more expensive treatments and better survival times for people with smoking-related diseases, combined with a better understanding of the range of diseases caused by smoking.
So, er, they'd prefer worse survival times, or what?
Also, let's put that £2.7 billion (assuming it to be accurate) in the overall context of the £27 billion in extra taxes that smokers pay plus old age benefits that they never get to collect.
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Die, you bastards!
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Smoking etc. is a problem for the NHS.
Therefore we should get rid of the NHS.
It never seems to occur to anyone in the medja to ask this simple question.
"a better understanding of the range of diseases caused by smoking" ie, they blame smoking for more diseases than they used to because they are less able to blame industrial disease ?
I still refuse to be lectured by agents of the State that facilitated and profited from my addiction for forty years and which has acted, in effect, as a crack whore and pimp.
As for the money, where do I apply for my refund ?
I am still seeting abou the smoking ban and while everyone else has accepted it ,,..I never will
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