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Originally Posted by John1960
Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) estimate that each pack of cigarettes really costs €107 for men and €75 for women, when premature death is taken into account. These figures confirm previous studies, and are of key importance in the cost-benefit analysis of smoking-prevention policies.
Real price of each pack of cigarettes is more than 100 euros |
Ummmmm....I've asked this before and never gotten a satisfactory answer:
Premature death: How can you know if a death was "premature" if you don't know how long that person was supposed to live in the first place?
The truth is that you can't. Like all the promised "benefits" of healthy living, it's just speculation based upon averages. Do this, don't do that and you'll increase the ODDS of living longer or living better. In other words,...it's gambling.
I have several friends who would never think of setting foot in a casino, but they obsessively watch what they eat, time their heart rate when jogging and avoid "bad" things like cigarette smoke and alcohol. They don't realize it, but they're as addicted to gambling as that poor, wild-eyed sucker running his credit card through the slot machine. They're just hoping to beat the odds.
And "studies" like this one merely feeds the addiction.
Of course, it also provides "evidence" for increasing taxation and more intrusive behavior modification laws. Gee, who woulda thunk it?
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