If smokers die younger (like we're lead to believe)
How much do smokers save the NHS by popping their clogs early, before they get alzheimer's etc and become in need of years of care or before they claim their share of old age pension due to passing away from smoking related illness's?
In 2009 Smoking cost the NHS £5bn a year.
one in five deaths in the UK in 2005 could be attributed to smoking.
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Smoking costs NHS £5bn a year