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West Ender · 28-10-2005, 16:28

We hear so much about the cost to the NHS of smokers. Surely everyone, except private patients, is some cost to the NHS. While I'm not recommending smoking, every person on this earth is going to die one day and it's not just smokers who will need some kind of medical care before they go.

Now, if we were able to say that only smokers die, that would be a big incentive to the weed-puffers to give up. Sadly, even if you've never been closer than 30 feet to a cigarette and/or its fumes, one way or the other you're going to go. Cancer and heart disease are dreadful illnesses but, unfortunately, they are not exclusive to smokers.

Perhaps the NHS handle on this is that if you are a non-smoker you may possibly live to a much riper old age. That means that when your "time" comes no one will make much fuss if your treatment is minimal and you're allowed to "slip away", quietly and inexpensively. ("Well, your father is 95, Mr Snodgrass, so we're just going to keep him comfortable without any intervention"). Do you see what I mean?

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West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 193	Re: Smoking We hear so much about the cost to the NHS of smokers. Surely everyone, except private patients, is some cost to the NHS. While I'm not recommending smoking, every person on this earth is going to die one day and it's not just smokers who will need some kind of medical care before they go. Now, if we were able to say that only smokers die, that would be a big incentive to the weed-puffers to give up. Sadly, even if you've never been closer than 30 feet to a cigarette and/or its fumes, one way or the other you're going to go. Cancer and heart disease are dreadful illnesses but, unfortunately, they are not exclusive to smokers. Perhaps the NHS handle on this is that if you are a non-smoker you may possibly live to a much riper old age. That means that when your "time" comes no one will make much fuss if your treatment is minimal and you're allowed to "slip away", quietly and inexpensively. ("Well, your father is 95, Mr Snodgrass, so we're just going to keep him comfortable without any intervention"). Do you see what I mean? __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.