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US taxpayers bear financial burden of smoking-related disease
2014-12-16 11:24:29| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Cigarette smoking generates as much as $170 billion in annual health care spending in the United States, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Georgia State University's School of Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and RTI International. Dr. Terry F. Pechacek, a professor of health management and policy at Georgia State, was the senior author of the study, "Annual Healthcare Spending Attributable to Cigarette Smoking ," which was published by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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