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Mar 22, 2012, 

Alcohol, Obesity and Smoking Do Not Cost Health Care Systems Money

It's a common enough argument around the world at the moment, that
various unhealthy behaviours increase the costs to health care
systems. Thus those unhealthy behaviours should be taxed more heavily
so as to pay for the costs to those health care systems. The only
problem with the argument is that it is entirely gibbering nonsense,
unhealthy behaviours reduce costs to health care systems: if we are to
accept the initial logic then we should subsidise them, not tax them

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-obesity-and-smoking-do-not-cost-health-care-systems-money/