I dont know how smoking affects health care costs in France (on the other hand, cigarettes are heavily taxed and cigarette sales augment the tax coffers), but with 66,000 to 73,000 people a year dying in France, its likely a fairly substantial burden on the excellent French health care system and social structure
[17] Towards the end of the 18th century and in the 19th century, cigar smoking was common, while cigarettes were comparatively rare
Specifically, Staphylococcus and Aspergillus exhibit significant positive correlations with carbohydrate metabolites D-Glucono-1,5-lactone and D-Trehalose, respectively (Figure 7)
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