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Nothing wrong with a system of voluntary population reduction.
Yeah, they may add to the healthcare costs, but a smoker who goes out at 60 is still probably going to cost us less than he would have if he not been a smoker and gone out at 85.
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If only they died at 60 with their own insurance.
More frequently, smokers live farther and farther into old age bleeding the system and had smoked their insurance premiums while they were (presumably) productive but lived on medicaid. Lose, lose.