“Philip Morris Cos. officials in the Czech Republic have been distributing an economic analysis concluding that . . . smokers’ early deaths help offset medical expenses,” says The Wall Street Journal. “The report, commissioned by the cigarette maker . . . , totes up smoking’s ‘positive effects’ on national finances, including revenue from excise and other taxes on cigarettes and ‘health-care cost savings due to early mortality.’” The article adds: “Weighing the costs and benefits, the report concludes that in 1999 the government had a net gain of 5.82 billion koruna
($147.1 million) from smoking.”
Outcry against the report was swift. “
Tobacco companies used to deny that cigarettes killed people. Now they brag about it,” one columnist wrote. Said economist Kenneth Warner: “Is there any other company that would boast about making money for the public treasury by killing its customers? I can’t think of one.” Philip Morris issued an apology the following week. “We understand that this was not only a terrible mistake, but that it was wrong,” said senior vice president
Steven C. Parrish. “To say it’s totally inappropriate is an understatement.”
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As the saying goes, statistics can be used to prove anything. There was a recent study in the British medical journal Lancet which concluded that alcohol was more costly to society than cocaine or heroin use. Maybe the liquor industry needs to hire the researchers and PR companies used by the tobacco industry. They could do a scientific study touting the positive economic effects of alcohol abuse, especially when combined with cigarette smoking.
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Smoking no good.. =.=
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You make an interesting point. Everyone knows though that smokers are a great source of income - just imagine what the world would be like without them (healthier, yes, but the "missing" money would be drawn in elsewhere - tax on air?)
One of the sickest things I've ever heard!
ISLAM does better for the ECONOMY than cigarettes and the state does not have to wait ten, twenty years to make profits with cancer.
THE DEADS are a hundred an hour. Great for coffin manufacturers, funeral homes, cemetery employees.
Juat do you say>?
smoking not good but i until know love smoke ...
mmm, passive smokers is dangerous?
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