public healthcare expenses as well as leading to earlier retirements, thus making sure that you are less of a net contributer to the system. that and it unfortunately effects the people around you unlike alcohol. in my honest opinion as a smoker, they should just cut the bullshit and make healthcare cost a premium for obese people and smokers instead of constantly raising prices by government mandate and then afterwards complain that we overburden the system despite the extra funds we pay into the system from buying cigarettes.
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