If twenty percent of the adult population smoke, that’s one person in five who smoke, and four out of five who don’t.
If one adult patient in twenty is in hospital because of some ‘smoking related illness’ (which as we all know, means they smoke, so if they have a sprained wrist it’s smoking-related) then nineteen out of twenty people in hospital are non-smokers.
Which means that if you don’t smoke, you are far more likely to end up in hospital, and therefore more likely to cost the NHS money, that those who do.
And our smoker taxes are subsidising your treatment.
Not-smoking is a lifestyle choice and I don’t see why we smokers have to pay for your choices. Not-smoking is costing the NHS nineteen times as much as smoking, according to ASH’s own figures, therefore smoking should be encouraged and non-smokers denied treatment until they light up.
There you are, ASH, how do you bloody well like it?
Your game, your rules and your figures.
funny but the math is skewed
Skewed? But it can’t be. It’s using the axioms and logic of ASH-math
Hi, L-i. I think I mentioned official figures a couple of years ago that 49% of transplanted lungs were from smokers. About the same number as from non smokers. I take it to mean that we smokers, on the whole, are four times as generous and thoughtful than the selfish, grasping non smokers.
Personally, I don’t have a donor card because
1. I don’t trust them to diagnose my death properly. Look at the title of the link in the middle of the article that you linked to “Blundering hospital sent injured child home with a plaster cast on the wrong limb.” If you believe the papers this sort of thing happens too often for my liking.
2. I don’t trust them not to let me (a smoker) die, even though treatable with a decent amount of care (that I’ve paid for), in order to use my organs in others.
I wonder how long that link I mentioned will last before it’s taken down.
Pretty interesting point.
I read somewhere that the brain isn’t capable of storing all our memories and so spreads them out throughout our bodies. If that’s true, and I’m not claiming it is or isn’t, then some organ recipients who haven’t smoked in the past might start after getting an organ from a smoker.
Perhaps that’s the ultimate ironic revenge on the righteous?
You’ve reminded of something I (over) heard ages ago. It’s almost the opposite of what you said. My girlfriend and I were outside a theatre in Llandudno during the break.
A chap was talking about someone he knew who had a complete blood transfusion and woke up not feeling like smoking anymore.
I think I now have a calling. I must become a blood donor.