Each year 32,000 people die from lung cancer alone which is mostly due to smoking. I don't get why people smoke when they know they're either killing themselves or causing serious damage to thier health.
Smokers cost the NHS milions every year and worse we , the public, pay for it. I think if you intentionally damage yourself then you should pay for their own health care. Including the thousands they spend on the cigarettes, if a pack of 20 costs £5.30 and you smoke a packet a day that's £1930 a year and £77,200 a lifetime (40 years of smoking). Cutting down still isn't enough to avoid getting lung cancer anyway, after a year of quitting your chances of developing lung cancer are halfed, even if you've been smoking for 30 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/womens_health/issues_smoking.shtml
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