The Government Wants You To Smoke

The entire US Government really wants you to smoke? Well
maybe not the Department of health and Human Services, but the
Government as a whole? I gotta tell you, they do pretty well off
of tobacco
On the average, every smoker saves the government twenty
thousand dollars per head on costs saved That’s because
cigarette smokers die early and don’t collect so much retirement
money You might think they make up for it in added health care
expenses, but that twenty thousand is after those are deducted
Also, the Government makes a ton off of the taxes they charge to
addicts When the Clinton administration was trying to achieve
universal coverage for Americans (like every other civilized
nation) one of the ways they wanted to raise money was by
increasing cigarette taxes but they had calculated that if they
raised those taxes too high people would actually start to quit
smoking and the revenue would decrease at that point There was
a real careful calculation about how high they could go before
that horrible thing happened (And America still doesn’t have
universal health care and our life span ranks twenty sixth in
the World and forty five million Americans don’t have any
coverage at all)
If you ask me there’s the real secret to saving social security
It’s not private accounts, it’s smoking Everybody in the US
should be required to smoke, the system would become solvent
again with everybody dying off and not using up their benefits,
plus – and here’s the real beauty of the plan – everyone would
be cool (As we all know from highschool, cool people smoke)
Finally, the Government, both state and Federal, has made
billions off of tobacco settlement money which was supposed to
be earmarked to get people to quick smoking and cover medical
costs related to smoking, but not all of it has At a guess,
I’d say not much
Is it any wonder that the US still pays farmers to grow this
stuff when they make so much off of it?

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