| >Smoking reduces quality years of life actually it make worse your worst year, but has no effect on your best years > and puts a burden on a nation's health system. listen, I know smocking is bad as anyone else, but if we wanna talk about "burden on a nation's health system" let's talk about cars (fumes are just the tip of the iceberg, we have more than 20 thousand deaths/year caused by car accidents and many more injured and/or left invalid) or having children. You know what also puts a burden on on a nation's health system? an aging population! in my Country more than 25% of the population is over 65, so they not only are retired and do not contribute anymore to the expenditures through their work, they also need a lot of very expensive and prolonged care. They most probably smoked in their younger years, but survived nonetheless and now they need to be taken care of. Truth is the nation health system wastes too much money on things that do not help people, we've seen it during the pandemic, the personnel was crushed by the unsustainable shifts and the output was barely sufficient. said by someone who was born and lives in a Country with a public healthcare system, who happily pays for it through a lot of taxes (half of my salary) and a big chunk of the family employed by the aforementioned public national health care system. Or, for example, what has been the cost (both economical and social) of the recent opioid epidemic in the US of A caused by the health care system itself? > But more importantly, it's morally wrong to suggest we shorten and make our lives worse for some short term stimulant spike. like, for example, firing up combustion engines to drive kids to school? kids that, bear in mind, have perfectly functioning legs and can walk! |
If only there was something out there that could thin out this group of people in particular.