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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts
(www.theguardian.com)
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I'm not sure about how accurate it is, but I read something a while back about it being the opposite in canada. You don't spend more on smokers because they don't live long enough to get to the really expensive part.
This is just a foggy memory so I'm definitely open to being corrected.