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Smoking related deaths are relatively cheap. In Canada a typical pack-a-day smoker pays an extra $5k/year in taxes, and then dies not long after they retire and start collecting social security.

A bigger burden are the healthy people who live into their 90s while their bodies slowly decay over the span of decades



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