Quote Originally Posted by Jeril View Post
What about the smokers and the drunks, Tgo? Since you seem to be in a researching mood.
Drinking costs 176 billion dollars a year, which is about 7% of annual healthcare spending.

Surprisingly smoking only costs 96 billion dollars a year which is 3.6% of annual healthcare spending.

Quote Originally Posted by cwolff View Post
And the elderly. Throw up their numbers
Why? Are we blaming people for aging? Shall I post up the numbers for babies too? Darn babies being born!