Hiya Hasbeen

Pull (or Light Up :) another one!

Nothing like the Bloated Medicare Taxes paid by NON SMOKERS

to cross subsidise disproportionately high numbers of SMOKER patients.

Nothing like the Bloated Medicare Taxes paid by NON SMOKERS
plantagenet,
pityful argument !

Generally for a developed nation like ours smoking accounts for 15% of our health budget. Given that sits at over $80 billion that returns a figure of $12 billion.

However the cost to productivity drove that figure quite a bit higher.

"In 2000, Lightwood et al reported that the total economic costs of smoking, including productivity losses, amounted to 2.1%–3.4% of GDP in Australia."

A quick back of the envelope calculation using the most conservative figure puts that at over $35 billion dollars a year. Yet we only pull $8 billion a year in tobacco excise.

So smokers really are freeloading off the rest of us.

Yeah INDIVIDUAL (I'm not!) and you HAS-BEAN you.

Wrap your pert lips around SteeleRedux's word of wisdom.

And as you need a sound spanking I recommend you read "Pete's Foggy Friday Poetical Affirmations"

at http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2019/07/petes-foggy-friday-poetic-affirmations.html

Yours Fellow OLO Tosser

Poida da Great

Figurers quoted by health authority are $600 million cost of smoking related disease, $8 billion tax collected,

Sorry plantagenet, 1 don't ever pay any attention to anything SR posts, it is always some dreamed up bulldust. Great imagination that fellow, pity he has no grip on reality.

1ncidental 1 think people who waste money on smoking, drinking or gambling are bloody idiots. 1 would never have been able to enjoy my motor racing, 6 years of cruising my yacht around the Pacific islands, or my current stable of sports cars, if had been silly enough to so indulge.

Just because 1 don't do it myself, 1 still see no reason to rip of those who do.

Giday Hasbeen

Re your idle boast? - YOUR "motor racing, 6 years of cruising [YOUR] yacht around the Pacific islands, or [YOUR] current stable of sports cars"

Whada filthy rich, yet "modest?", chick-magnet you must be!

Are the Ladies Lining Up at your door nightly for a serious crank Shafting?