Majority of smokers I know have had very few smoking related illnesses. I smoked for 17 years and the worst smoking related illness that I had, if you could even call it that, was the flu.
In relation to the taxes I paid, I'm pretty sure most of that would've been used on non smoking related issues! I don't know what you mean in this part "You may have paid tax relating to smoking but have you paid enough to provide adequate beds to enable all service users to acquire a hospital bed in Winter?"
Are you suggesting that every smoker should pay enough in taxes so that everyone who uses the hospital should be paid for? And why just winter, what about summer?
I say Winter because thats when there is an enormous peak in chest infections, CPOD, etc, especially amongst smokers. You were very fortunate that you did not go on smoking into old age or you would have found yourself having similar problems - not that it only happens older people either.
You say you covered your hospital stay in taxes, yes, YOU probably did, but lots of smokers could have multiple hospital admisssions or out-patient attendances, squeezing out other hospital users, thats what I mean when I say some smokers are using the system more than non-smokers but we are all paying the same tax.