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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on October 7, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(20):1426-1427; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn376
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Tobacco Control Program Saves California Billions

Karen Rowan

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California's tobacco control program reduced personal health care costs in the state by $86 billion over its first 15 years in existence, according to University of California at San Francisco researchers, in addition to saving the cost of the 3.6 billion packs of cigarettes that the program prevented from being smoked. The savings amounted to a nearly 50-fold return on the $1.8 billion spent by the program during that period, according to the study, which appeared in PLoS Medicine in August.

"At first, I thought, this [amount of money was] too big," said study coauthor James Lightwood, Ph.D., assistant adjunct professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy. "But the numbers held up." The study examined the correlations between per capita cigarette consumption (using data from the Tax Burden on Tobacco, an annual industry report), per capita tobacco control expenditures (using data . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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