"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."
~ Martin Niemoller
British Doctors Favor Withholding Medical Treatment For Smokers and the Obese
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I don't know much about Britain, but I am going to assume that just as here in South Africa, cigarettes are heavily taxed, ostensibly to help pay for the costs of treating patients with smoking-related diseases. Can we assume that if such patients will no longer receive treatment, that the state will also cease the taxation of tobacco?
Yes, it's a rhetorical question... :-)
Is that the Hippocratic Oath or the hypocritic oath?
The decline of Western Civilization continues.
And people will *still* be agitating for NHS-style healthcare in the US. . .
(I'm sorry, you smoke cigarettes, I can't treat your completely unrelated illness)