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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 08 > Do smokers really cost society money?

Do smokers really cost society money?

By Erica Werner / The Bulletin
April 8, 2009

WASHINGTON — Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too — by living longer.

It’s an element of the debate over tobacco that some economists and officials find distasteful.

House members....

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