It costs us nothing when people sell cigarettes. Actually, private investors are happy to finance cigarette production without any help from the public. No such investors can be found for nuclear power, so it costs us billions when our leaders are convinced that we need another nuclear plant.
Given that cigarettes kill orders of magnitude more people annually than have ever died from nuclear power, I would posit that it is far more dangerous. And the fact that the people who are most likely to smoke are likely to be relying on taxpayer-funded subsidies for health care, I'm having a hard time determining where you got your "nothing" number from
It costs us nothing when people sell cigarettes. Actually, private investors are happy to finance cigarette production without any help from the public. No such investors can be found for nuclear power, so it costs us billions when our leaders are convinced that we need another nuclear plant.