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Study finds tobacco control efforts yield huge health care savings
Fri Feb 15, 2013
California tobacco control efforts that cost $2.4 billion over nearly two decades reduced health care costs during that same period by $134 billion, according to a new study co-authored by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member James Lightwood, PhD.