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...price on human life? It certainly looked that way last week, when a study sponsored by Philip Morris found that the Czech Republic actually saves money when one of its citizens smokes - $1,227 in reduced health care, pensions and housing costs, on average, every time a smoker dies...
...money clearly isn?t coming out of Big Tobacco?s pockets, just smokers'. Why should the government be punishing them when the costs of smoking appear well-confined to the smoker - indeed when the government appears to be coming out ahead? Sure, Big Tobacco profits - that?s the business they?re in, and it?s still legal last time I checked. But you don?t have to be anti-Feds to question what right the government has to take a piece of the action...
...Most of the money came from tax revenue. But between $24 and $30 million of those savings came from the reality that anti-smoking advocates in the U.S. (and the lawyers that work for them) don't talk about much - that the shortened life of the average smoker saves the government money on things like health care, pension and public housing...
...smoking-related illnesses. Big Tobacco agreed to curb advertising, stop marketing to minors (no more Joe Camel) and fund a national antismoking group to police their practices. In 1999 the Clinton Administration filed its suit. More recently, Philip Morris was assessed $3 billion in damages to a single smoker in California. Throw in price increases of more than 60% that had begun to cut demand, and domestic tobacco seemed doomed...
JUDGMENT AWARDED. To RICHARD BOEKEN, 56, steadfast two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker for 40 years, found to have lung cancer in 1999; more than $3 billion in damages from cigarette maker Philip Morris; in Los Angeles. Boeken's lawyer accused Philip Morris of pushing smoking as "cool" despite its addictiveness, which he measured by recounting that his client had quashed addictions to heroin and alcohol, but couldn't quit smoking...