What percentage of hospital beds are occupied by people there because of drinking, smoking, drugs, or venereal disease?
Approximately 70% of hospital beds are occupied by people who are there because of drinking, smoking, drugs, or venereal diseases. This statistic was cited as a general estimate, not an exact figure, and illustrates how harmful physical habits fill hospital beds and drive up medical costs.
Les explains that medical science has proven cigarettes harm the body much like alcohol damages the liver and whole physical well-being. He recalls watching a Good Morning America interview with the president of the American Hospital Association around the time medical costs were escalating. When asked what Americans could do to lower skyrocketing medical costs, the doctor said they would simply have to stop doing the things that harm their body. He then gave a general statistic of about 70% of all hospital beds being occupied by people there because of drinking, smoking, drugs, or venereal diseases. Les concludes that hospital beds are filled with people who have abused their physical bodies with things now known to be harmful, which is what the Bible tells us.