Smoking

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It is different in the UK with the NHS.
Ultimately, it is taxpayer money which provides health care for everyone.

So if a boxer or athlete gets hurt, their treatment is paid for by taxpayers.  In that distemper, pretty much every choice affects others.  You eat a burger, you drive a car, you work a stressful job etc - other people pay for your choices.

Of course, choices always matter.  If you got brain damage whilst boxing society would be robbed of your productivity and would gave to foot the bill kne way or another.

Everything costs everyone at some point.

I know precisely how the NHS in the UK works, firsthand. But it doesn’t matter if taxpayers or private insurance companies foot the bill, it comes to the same in the end: more money spend on healthcare equals less money for other things, regardless of where that money comes from. And the strain on healthcare resources is the same.

It’s a little disingenuous of you to compare athletes to smokers. Boxers may get injured, smokers will get sick. It’s also a stupid comparison because smokers outnumber boxers in the UK by 10 to 1.

Do your country a favour and quit smoking.

Boru