The state should not provide rehab centers and treatment centers - the private sector/charities should do that.
Actually, I think if you're going to be stupid enough to do any of those things, it's entirely on your back to pay for your own treatment. If you can con some private individual or charity into paying for you, that's fine, I guess, it's their money to waste however they want to.
But if someone is dying - the state should always provide emergency medical care.
Why? If you spend your life smoking 5 packs a day and you get lung cancer, it's not like you can claim you didn't know. Those warnings on the pack aren't there for decoration. You knowingly did it to yourself, how can it be the taxpayer's job to pay for your care, emergency or no? You should have paid for your own insurance, or barring that since probably you won't be able to get insurance, to put away money to fund your own care when your stupidity invariably kills you. I didn't stick those cigarettes in your mouth, why should I have to pay for your idiocy?
It is not only humane but also in the public's best interest. If someone contracted TB or some other contagious disease because of their addiction and was forced to die on the street, the number of innocent people that could be infected could be huge.
Ah, but we're not talking about diseases, we're talking about something that someone did to themselves. While the risk factors for TB are higher in smokers, at best, I'd say the individual is still responsible for paying for their own care. At best, quarantine them somewhere and let them die.
Plus, to force someone to die on the streets would mean that person would have to resort to crime to survive - again, probably effecting innocent others when if the person was allowed to die in a hospital, the problem can be contained.
I don't buy resorting to anything. If you commit a crime for *ANY* reason, you deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, period. Throw them in a prison in a bed somewhere and let them die.
If a person has no health insurance and develops an ailment/condition that requires expensive medical treatment and cannot get help from charities...then they are out if luck, imo.
They should have thought of that before they engaged in the activity.
But the state should still give them basic medical care and provide them a bed to die in.
A bed to die in? Sure. It wouldn't bother me if every smoker on the planet dropped dead tomorrow. Their actions, their responsibilities.