Statistics show, that 70 percent of hospital beds are taken up by smoking related diseases. Insanity.
I don't think that percentage is correct, but I appreciate the idea, smoking is a huge preventable burden on the system. Trouble is, like petrol, most of the tax component goes to consolidated revenue. Nothing like the full amount of tax collected from petrol goers to road funding, and nothing like the full tax collected from smokes goes to hospital/health funding. The government is as addicted to smoking (for the revenue it raisers) as are the poor smokers.
