should smokers be treated free on the nhs?

Answer 1

Yeah as they pay the same tax as all the others

Answer 2

Of course, just like drug addicts, alcoholics and obese people.

The NHS cant select the people it would prefer to treat just because they smoke or eat too much or have any other addiction.

It would be unethical as no one looks after their bodies 100%.

Smokers pay a load of tax and have as much right to be treated on the NHS as the rest of us do.............................. Do you think that if you needed treatment for a heart attack that it would be fair to say to you, sorry no treatment for you as you dont go to the gym 3 times a week?

I think the word im thinking of right now is DISCRIMINATION.

And for the record, im a non smoker.

Answer 3

first of all im a smoker i dont think smokers should be treated on the nhs for free but i also think in some cases obese people shouldnt and alcholics shouldnot either these people have chosen to smoke and drink but some obese people have diseases that are not their fault and other people are just stuffing their face all the time so no i dont think smokersshould not get treated for free

Answer 4

If a Johny Foreigner, who's just fresh off the plane or even worst a "health tourist" gets FREE treatment then surely, smokers are little better specimen of humanity than these & hence should be treated for free.

If smokers should NOT get treated for free on NHS then so should NOT the drinkers, druggies, foreigners, scoungers, umemployed, chavs, paedophile, criminal, muggers, murders, footballers, politicians & of course, the Jihadist.

Answer 5

I do pay , for NHS services as I work , so if i'm a smoker , fat , too thin cause of anorexia , a alcholic ,or anything ,I deserve to be treated as I have paid my way all my working life , I would never discriminate against anyone as I do not live in a country run by dictators.

Answer 6

anything if you get it for 'FREE' or 'EASY'....people won't give it a great 'value'... and a good efford,give a free treatment for a smoker or an alcohol addicted. it's very kind and a wonderful things for the country, but I think that is not the right bright way,
*Why cant the government increase another 100% vat on cigarats and alcohols....this way we only use 1 bullet but we catch 2 births....1 the country have more healthy people,
2. The country have more money and can use this money for other public services or even for the new investment.
*Actually ,it is so obvious that smoking is no good at all....
*I think using budget for runing campage influence people not smoking is better than giving them a free treatment.
I know many people can stop smoking and other addicted behaviour they don't use money at all, they use their minds and after they stop it, they have more money left in their banks.
etc..........oh!....I have so much to talk about this.

Answer 7

I gave up smoking notwithstanding the oldest woman in the international smoked until eventually she replaced into 118. you're in basic terms a scapegoat. I gave up because i did not see the point in paying all that tax so i'm doing what they didn't wish, as they could hate each and all and sundry to provide up. Drug addicts fee truly some money and they did no longer have society making it seem glamorous at one time. each and every of the movie stars might want to smoke. i might want to particularly a smoker fee money on the NHS at least of they paid more advantageous tax for it and smoking is a drug dependancy as addictive as heroin. this is type of fantastic how human beings in society get punished for doing what they were once informed to. alongside with the authorities telling the British they were more advantageous and to sing nationalist songs in basic terms so that they could die in wars for the few on the accurate, yet now they are arrested for being proud to be British. .

Answer 8

To all the people who have said that basically it is "our fault so No." Do you say that if it is your fault that you need medical treatment that you should not receive it unless you promise not to do it again?
Would you want the ambulance driver to take only the victims of a car crash and not the guilty driver? The doctors could be judge, jury and executioner at every accident. Drug takers, Fat people, injured footballers who's next? I have paid thousands in tax on my cigarettes, what does the government do with this money if it is not for the NHS?

Answer 9

I will attempt to answer this, but in a round about way.
You see as I was born in 1948,I was raised on a diet of smoking ad's, from "it helps you unwind, and relax's you"! Right through to the Winstone ad's that claimed it made you more of a man?. then
Chesterfield's, State express 555, they ALL made it easier for us to smoke, BUT worse of all, so did the Goverment? They just kept very quiet, (something to do with Tax's?????), I finally stopped, after I had open heart surgery for a smoke induced Heart problem, that was about 9 years ago, Thankfully, enough people thought it was ok to treat us smokers, (EX)
thanks all
Paul

Answer 10

If they're tax payers, and not lazy spongers who don't want to work, then yes. Thinking about it though, if you smoke, you're actually filling the treasury whenever you buy your cigerettes.

This isn't the first time I've heard this arguement. I can understand such a viewpoint, but wouldn't you be more than a little brassed-off if you'd payed taxes all your working life, suddenly found that you required an operation, and then you wre told you couldn't have it done because you were overweight and apparently 'brought the problem onto yourself'? If you couldn't benefit from the health service you'd already payed for, would you be so happy to fund it?

Answer 11

Smoking has decreased so much now that it really isn't so much of a problem any more, you should be aksing should obese people be treated on the NHS because they represent much more of a problem and its not so much to do with addiction like smoking is they could stop but are too lazy