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To: RealMuLan who wrote (52594)8/25/2004 12:37:58 AM
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..... So the obese smoker who keels over at age 68 saves the taxpayers money. He has probably collected Social Security and Medicare benefits for only three years. The aerobics queen whose careful health habits help extend her life to 90 will have spent at least 25 years in these programs.

(Some years ago, Harvard law professor W. Kip Viscusi calculated that smokers actually eased the taxpayer's burden -- to the tune of 83 cents a cigarette pack....
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