Do you smoke tobacco ?

[Hauldren Collider]

If they've been paying heavy taxes on tobacco like in many countries then they've paid for their healthcare.

Should a person who got injured playing sport be 'suckling goverment tit' ?

No, and no.

I don't think the point of taxing tobacco is so that we have money to burn on people with preventable health problems.

[BeBMan]

I would rather pay taxes in Monaco than to smoke tobacco

[The Mad Monk]

Have you considered the merits of expressing your opinions in ways that are less than utterly belligerent?

Albie has two settings: Ferengi, and Klingon.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

[Darius871]

Along that line of thought, a smoker with health problems related to smoking shouldn't be suckling goverment tit then?

A) What CH said. They've already paid through the nose.
B) IIRC there have been studies to the effect that smokers die quicker and cheaper on average than the general population. Thus, they at least would take less from that tit.
C) Hell yes smoking-caused ailments should be ineligible anyway.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

quicker dying... now that is an cost saving optimization that you do not hear about every day

[rah]

Should fat asses that cram themselves with food be able to suck from that tit claiming disability when they get so fat that they can't get out of bed?

Should sun bathers be able to suck at that tit to treat their inevitable skin cancer?

At least the smokers paid taxes for their sins.

[Sava]

Fat people get to suck tits? I need to eat more.

[Sava]

Hey, if I vote banana, does that make me teh ghey?

[Darius871]

quicker dying... now that is an cost saving optimization that you do not hear about every day

It's not like they have a hell of a lot to live for anyway. As Dick Solomon put it, "Yeah, but smoking only takes years off the end of your life... and those years suck anyway. *puff* *puff*" Funny as it is, I can't help but agree in all seriousness, which is why I smoke like a chimney. Better to drop dead of four simultaneous heartattacks at my desk than to become a crotchety old buzzkill at Thanksgiving, watch daytime TV, forget half of what I need for bar trivia, vote for Tea Party candidates, and need an orderly to wipe my own ass. *shudders*

[Sava]

It's not like they have a hell of a lot to live for anyway. As Dick Solomon put it, "Yeah, but smoking only takes years off the end of your life... and those years suck anyway. *puff* *puff*" Funny as it is, I can't help but agree in all seriousness, which is why I smoke like a chimney. Better to drop dead of four simultaneous heartattacks at my desk than to become a crotchety old buzzkill at Thanksgiving, watch daytime TV, forget half of what I need for bar trivia, vote for Tea Party candidates, and need an orderly to wipe my own ass. *shudders*

Cancer isn't a quick death. I've seen it. You don't drop. And the pain and suffering makes it seem longer than it is... for you and your family.

[Darius871]

Cancer isn't a quick death. I've seen it.

Only because the doctors, often paid for by others, forestall the nearly inevitable. Unless your friend/relative was a christian scientist or something.

[Sava]

Only because the doctors, often paid for by others, forestall the nearly inevitable. Unless your friend/relative was a christian scientist or something.

Yes, ongoing treatment did forestall the inevitable. But so does drinking and eating every day. We incorrectly separate simple things like food and water from what Western medicine does. Medicine merely manipulates biology in a fancier way. Stop eating, you are forestalling the inevitable.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

Hey, if I vote banana, does that make me teh ghey?

There used to be this urban legend floating around that you could smoke banana peels and get high, so not necessarily

[Darius871]

Yes, ongoing treatment did forestall the inevitable. But so does drinking and eating every day. We incorrectly separate simple things like food and water from what Western medicine does. Medicine merely manipulates biology in a fancier way. Stop eating, you are forestalling the inevitable.

Yes, the more boomers that stop drinking and eating, the better. Whatever it takes.