tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post6449538625422319284..comments2023-11-03T19:05:08.512+11:00Comments on Harry Clarke: Private costs of cigarette smokingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-70859873986004582672007-11-21T05:49:00.000+11:002007-11-21T05:49:00.000+11:00I am not quite sure if word 'directly' is being ap...I am not quite sure if word 'directly' is being applied equally to the risk involved in all three activities. There is no area of human activity that does not involve risk. It is highly unlikely (although not impossible)that a husband while actively skiing would directly break a leg of a wife who was passively watching him engage in this activity. But one can not assume that all broken legs of all wives of skiing husbands are directly as a result of husbands' skiing activities. And given the conclusions of the study I mentioned above it is highly unlikely (although not impossible that the cancer question would have been directly caused by anyone smoking including her husband. Therefore her death is not offset in value of extra taxes because her death should not even come in to this equation. <BR/>But, then, the risky activity of skiing is not a trillion dollar global gold mine - as it is, sadly, for people who enjoy the risky activity of smoking.<BR/>Fredrik EichFredrik Eichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09985306468872702882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-11200978265830998592007-11-20T21:33:00.000+11:002007-11-20T21:33:00.000+11:00Yes Fredrik, But these latter activities don't imp...Yes Fredrik, But these latter activities don't impact directly on her.hchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799594181016858701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-30886457257337802842007-11-20T05:17:00.000+11:002007-11-20T05:17:00.000+11:00No doubt a wife of a smoker would indeed find it a...No doubt a wife of a smoker would indeed find it a little vexing if after being told that she had less than a year to live that "her lung cancer death is offset in value by the extra taxes that her smoker husband contributed to the public purse".<BR/>Especially if she were familiar with the 2003 Enstrom and Kabat study "Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98” which would hardly reassure her that there was a proven measurable elevated risk to her health from her husbands smoking habit.<BR/>Doubtless if her husband, as well as being keen on the risky activity of smoking, enjoyed risky mountaineering and liked to do a bit of risky skiing every weekend – there would be "huge policy implications" for these activities too – policies that many of the worlds professional tobacco control advocates are so mysteriously keen on.<BR/><BR/>Fredrik EichFredrik Eichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09985306468872702882noreply@blogger.com