Quote:
Originally Posted by pavulon
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.
|
Smokers' early deaths may be a boon to the Czech Republic's finances, a study commissioned last year by Philip Morris Cos. said.
U.S. consulting firm Arthur D. Little International Inc. studied the impact of smoking on Czech public finances at Philip Morris' request in November 2000. The study found the cost benefits of smokers' early mortality, together with cigarette-tax revenue, outweighed the economic drawbacks of health-care and other smoking-related costs.
CNN.com - Study for Philip Morris found smokers' early deaths helped Czech finances - Jul. 16, 2001