froggy
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- Aug 18, 2009
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Is it the government's job to encourage people to give up smoking? Or should the people be free to choose whether they want to smoke or not? I'm of the opinion that if you have to use force to spread morality then it becomes inherently immoral.
Both NZ and Australia have public AND private health insurance. If my tax dollars are funding the public health system, then smokers can help fund that system via a tax on their disgusting habit.
People are free to choose to smoke. Are they free to expect my tax dollars to pay for their hospital visits that are due to the direct result of their disgusting habit?
Aren't the smoker's tax dollars also funding the public health system? And now they pay even more with the smokes tax? Don't smokers die sooner than non-smokers? Seems that would save the system some bucks.
Don't try to clear anything up for Dr, bubba Gump, she's a lunatic