If nobody in the United Kingdom smoked, what would happen to your pocket book? Everyone in the UK would be richer. The diseases connected to smoking are a big problem . Doctors think that the annual medical cost for lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses connected to smoking is between 12 and 35 million pounds. And smoking cost society money in other ways, between 27 and 61 billions pounds are spent each year:1. on sick days (when people don't go to work)2. on wages that you don't get when you don't go to work, and3. on work lost at the company when you are sick.This money counts the wages from people who die of cancer at young age and stop paying taxes. This does not count fire started by cigarettes which kill fifteen hundreds people yearly and injure another four thousand. Smoking costs every man, woman and child in the UK from one hundred and ten to two hundred and fifty pounds each year in the lost work and wages. When you add another fifty to one hundred and fifty pounds yearly in insurance cost, that comes from one hundred and sixty to four hundred and ten pounds. If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have up to one thousand six hundred and forty pounds a year or more. Of course smoking is not going to stop overnight. And NOT smoking will also cause problems, because people who don't smoke will live longer, and so they will take money from the government when they are old. But they will also work for more years and pay more taxes. In the end , the value of a non-smoking nation is not in pounds. The good health of the people is the true value for us all." If everyone stopped smoking, all United Kingdom _____. would have more money would have less money would live longer would have no more problemsAccording to doctors, annual medical cost for the illnesses connecting to smoking is about _____ million pounds. 27 61 between 12 and 35 between 27 and 61 Which of the following is NOT true? Some diseases are thought to be connected to smoking. Smoking costs society a lot of money. Smoking helps people live longer. Not smoking also causes problems. The true value for the UK of not smoking is _____. more working people good health more money more taxesThis text is about _____. taxes which are not paid by smokers diseases that smokers get how much smoking costs UK how much the UK would get if everyone stopped smoking
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