If government health care passes, should smoking be illegal so we don't all have to pay for smokers' cancer?Some cancer patients just get it through mysterious circumstances that are not related to their actions, or may be related but not as obviously.
Smoking leads to lung cancer and other illnesses like Buerger's Disease, cardio-vascular problems that are attributed to smoking and nothing else.
Why should I, a non-smoker, have to pay for smoking-related illnesses in other people who CHOSE to smoke?
And why, for that matter, should I pay for people who ride motorcycles without helmets, drink like fish at the bar and then drive home and hit a telephone pole or something... (I guess I could handle paying for the sober person who gets hit by the drunk, but I'd rather not pay for the drunk who does it to himself and nobody else...)
Seriously, I don't do any of that stuff. Why should I pay for others who take these risks?
Hey Builder - Thank you for making my point for me... and others who are answering this by pointing out this is a free country... how many of those freedoms are you willing to give up once we ALL have to pay for your health care?
Victory !
Get a Job, then complain and whine.
pdooma
Sure.
And of course we'd stop covering people who have sex outside of a monogamous relationship. After all, all those STDs and unplanned pregnancies are a real drain on our health care. Not to mention these activities are a choice.
Melissa Baker
Smoking, hamburgers, rock climbing, skiing, unprotected sex, all of this must be outlawed. Why should we pay for your broken limbs of syphilis?
Chupate esa!
Whatever your perception of freedom is...
Contard H. Moshiach
Actually it should be the rest of us who should not be forced to pay for healthy people. But we're reasonable people; we can compromise with you.
"...researchers found that never-smokers of normal weight actually incurred higher lifetime medical costs than obese nonsmokers. Smokers of normal weight had the lowest costs. Life years gained through prevention are not lived in full health. Reduction of risky behavior resulted in substituting expensive, chronic diseases of aging for cheap, lethal ones..."
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