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[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks to taxes (81½% of the price is tax on average), smokers are currently making my government a profit, including all the cancer care. Old people need a lot of healthcare, so people dying of cancer saves a lot of healthcare cost in the long term.

You been hanging out with Sir Humphrey? ;-)

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