Hurray for purely economic logic!

Even if this reductionist approach is accurately measuring what it is supposed to measure, it's bullshit.

What this doesn't factor in is the human suffering that smoking causes along the way to killing people - the mothers, fathers, children, friends, and lovers who lose someone near and dear to them to cancer. What is the cost of that?

@Fry--

Only the humans got it wrong.

@DennisSC:

The National Geographic Channel produced a video on the construction of the aqueducts that carry water to NYC. The engineering accomplishments of that project truly are mind-boggling to this day.

They literally flooded an entire town upstate and constructed underground waterways for the water to reach NYC.