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Article: Tobacco control program saved billions of U.S. dollars in health costs
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 27, 2008
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Tobacco control program saved billions of U.S. dollars in health
costs
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- California's tobacco control
program saved 86 billion U.S. dollars in 2004, while only costing
the state 1.8 billion dollars to fund the program, a new study
showed.
In a study published in the Aug. issue of PLoS Medicine,
researchers evaluated the health care savings that occurred as a
result of the tobacco control program between 1989, when the program
began, and 2004, when the study ended.
The study showed that the program resulted in a 50-to-1 return on
investment over 15 years, said researchers at the the University of
California in San Francisco (UCSF).
The savings were due to ...