Should smokers be refused surgery?

Indeed, Mr Anderson. And, expanding on your grouch, why should the
childless
have to subsidize the pregnancies, deliveries, and subsequent pediatric
services
for those who choose to breed? Why should the celibate underwrite the
escalating costs of STDs? Or teetotalers, of accidents and diseases caused
by
alcohol? Or couch potatoes, of skiers (and vice verse)? No end to the
ways we
can Balkanize medicine and rip the social contract if we follow your
advice.

Competing interests:
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