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Re:Michael Bloomberg launches $160M initiative to ban flavor... by kaibee on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:49PM (#20930235)
> People who smoke cigarettes and otherwise have an unhealthy lifestyle overburden the health system and take away government spending that can be spent elsewhere. Why should I pay more because you drinks coke, diabetic and smoke yourself towards lung cancer?

Do you have a source? I know it sounds intuitively correct, but I remember reading the opposite. Basically it goes like this: end of life/senior care is a very large percentage of medical spending. Unhealthy people don't live as long and die faster once their health deteriorates. So they actually cost less to the healthcare system than healthy people.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5316444/

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Re:Michael Bloomberg launches $160M initiative to ban flavor... by collyw on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:52PM (#20930272)
Smokers pay a fair bit in tax as well.
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Re:Michael Bloomberg launches $160M initiative to ban flavor... by atlasunshrugged on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:34PM (#20930836)
Depends on what jurisdiction you're talking about and what you consider a fair bit. Many countries aren't in compliance with the FCTC rules on 70% specific tax for tobacco
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Re:Michael Bloomberg launches $160M initiative to ban flavor... by atlasunshrugged on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:33PM (#20930826)
I don't have a good source for you on the counterargument you posited but I've been researching tobacco taxation for the last 3 months and I can tell you almost all literature I've read that's referenced that says that the burden of disease from smoking is more expensive.
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