[ReptileMan]

And yet the loved ones decision how to live their lives greatly outweigh what many people would like to see.

Having more pleasurable life when young while trading for a more gruesome death after 80 is not that bad of trade off.

There was a joke:

- Drinking, smoking and whoring shorten your life with 6 years. - Which six? Between 92 and 98 - take it.

[woodruffw]

I don't disagree. But it's also not clear why the government should incentivize individually cheap, collectively expensive personal decisions like current smoking patterns.