The early death of smokers tends to save a long, expensive period of end-of-life care. I believe smoking deaths reduce health care costs, ironically enough.
That study is almost 30 year old, has there been more current research? I also wonder if externalities like trauma on friends/family are factored in, I could imagine there are some transitive effects?
stackskipton|1 year ago
Smokers also help keep pension/social security costs down since they pay into it but don't collect out of it or do for much shorter period.
danielbln|1 year ago