What costs the NHS most....

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Swordfish

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Just had a lively debate with the missus and we could not agree which of the following costs the NHS the most to treat.


  • Smoking
  • Alcohol Abuse
  • Drug Abuse

I reckoned on smoking due the fact the we are now treating people, say in the 60's onwards, who, in their early years started smoking, as the dangers were not as well known then. The same could be said for alcohol as well I suppose.

Her answer is, however, drugs but she can't come up with a valid reason why.

Ani ideas, thoughts or linkys with info.

Cheers
 
More people die from smoking each year than the other two put together,
I think that's mainly due to the fact that more people smoke than abuse alcohol or use illegal drugs.

So I'd say smoking
 
[Cas];14692184 said:
Drugs; Because drugs users don't pay taxes on their addiction.
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I'm not looking for a profit/loss thing here.

Agreed that alcohol and smoking attract tax for the Government but I'm looking to see what the HNS spends the most on before any tax calculations take place.
 
alcohol by a long way. then smoking then drugs.

Get ur misses to whatch the BBC horizon episode on drugs. It rates the 20 worse drugs sescientifically taking into acount, social efffects, addictiveness and long term effects.

Alcohol kills more people per year in the uk than all the other drugs put together (bar smoking) even tough there is a lot of tax on alcahol aswell it still costs the NHS and policeforce more than the tax gained from selling the alcahol.



Also they recon that alcahol if discovered today would be a class A drug, and they say there is no justification for extacy being class a and rate it the 18th most dangerous drug. alcahol is rated number 5
 
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