Re: Smoking for boating
Congrats! My dad started smoked for 20 years. Quit after his quadruple bypass surgery while in his 50s and after Docs showed what smoking all those years did to him. But it was just too late because he died of its effects at the age of 70. Even the Chinese government is trying to get their people to stop smoking because the cost of medical treatment for smokers:
GDP versus Health
"China has 350 million smokers and the number just keeps rising. This year alone Chinese cigarette consumption has equaled about five cigarettes for every Chinese person per day - that accounts for 1.31 trillion cigarettes. For most people those statistics are extremely alarming –unless of course you are profiting from the Tobacco industry.
In the first half of this year, tobacco remained one of the most lucrative sectors in China, with a combined profit of 152.04 billion yuan which equates to 480.72 billion yuan in tax revenues. That’s big business for the Chinese government.
But on the other hand official statistics show that smoking in China causes over one million deaths per year from related diseases and is predicted to treble by 2025 putting huge pressure and expense on China’s national health care system.
Leaving the government in quite a predicament and begs the question: Can China afford to stop smoking? ....."