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Article: State Programs in Tobacco Control
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STATE PROGRAMS IN TOBACCO CONTROL
The goal of state or provincial tobacco-control programs is to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use, the single most preventable cause of death and disease in developed societies. Annually, tobacco use causes more than 400,000 deaths in the United States, at a cost of approximately $50 billion to $73 billion in medical expenses alone. Comprehensive tobacco-control programs combine a variety of strategies and tactics to prevent the initiation of tobacco use, to promote smoking cessation, to protect the nonsmoker from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and to identify and eliminate disparities in tobacco use and disease among different ...