Health insurance, Wolfy, health ionsurance... That's the real bite in the arse... Over $800 a mont fir me and the P-Vine and that's with a $2000 deductible for each of us...

A lung cancer patient will use up well over $100,000 in uinsurance and depending on how long they survive upwards of a half a milllion buck$...

This is where we non smokers are subsidizing the smokers... Yeah, they may pay more but in the big sceme of things they draw more money outta the pool... That's the way insurance works in general... The lower risk folks end up carrying the higher risk folks on their backs...

Now for your argument that the healthy people end up dieing of money consuming deseases of old age, that isn't true... Most people die of old age and not of money consuming desaeses... That is the fact... And most people pay into medigap policies up until they die of old age meaning that healthy people who event5ually die of old age continue to pay to cover higher risk folks right up until their deaths...

Contact the American Cancer Society and they will be nore than happy to furnish you with plenty of stuff that will debunk the common misunderstanding about the costs of lung cancer to our country... And it goes well beyond just medical costs alone...

Bobert