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The average West Virginia smoker should expect to spend nearly $119,000 to support that habit over the next three decades, according to a new study. The Health Statistics Center at the state Department of Health and Human Resources released a study Thursday detailing how much the average West Virginia smoker could spend on cigarettes over a lifetime.
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Several state governments have enacted laws that would allow them to file lawsuits against tobacco companies to recover billions of dollars spent in treating citizens with smoking-related illnesses. States such as Florida, Mississippi and Massachusetts maintain that tobacco companies are liable for the illnesses because of tobacco's addictive properties. The tobacco industry has questioned the legality of such laws.
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States have collected billions of dollars from tobacco companies but spent only 3 percent of it to combat smoking - a less-than- robust response to the high costs of health care associated with smoking, a federal report released Thursday says. Of the $243.8 billion in tobacco money received from 1998 to 2010 from a landmark tobacco settlement and excise taxes, states spent only $8.1 billion, or 3.3 percent, on "tobacco control," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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A pack of cigarettes that sells for $7.48 in New Jersey ends up costing the state's economy $30.29 once the costs of health care for smoking-related diseases, lost time at work and premature death are considered, according to a study released Tuesday by the American Lung Association. In all, the economic toll of New Jersey's smokers exceeded $8.3 billion in 2009, according to research conducted by Penn State University. Medical expenditures for smoking-related illnesses totaled $3.6 billion, while premature deaths due to smoking drained the economy by a further $2.9 billion, the study said. Smoking also cut productivity by $1.8 billion.
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State to help some smokers quit HARTFORD (AP) -- Connecticut officials say the state is getting up to $10 million over five years to help people on Medicaid quit smoking. The federal grant will help the state launch the "iQuit" program, which aims to improve the overall health of Medicaid recipients' and lower taxpayer-funded Medicaid costs for treatment of smoking-related illnesses.
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OXFORD - The rising cost of car tags is grabbing headlines as six state legislators return to Jackson Tuesday to continue debating how much to raise Mississippi's cigarette tax, but the equally serious matter of smoking and its health care costs remains a major part of the debate. The House and Senate have passed different versions of a cigarette tax increase. The House bill would have raised the cigarette tax to $1 a pack while the Senate approved raising the tax about 49 cents a pack.
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The Seneca-Cayuga nation will have to wait and see if the State of New York adopts any changes to the payment of escrow for the sale of cigarettes on Indian land. They lost their case Tuesday in the New York State Court of Appeals. This case stems from the 1998 settlement of a lawsuit brought against major American tobacco companies by New York and 45 other states, as well as the District of Columbia and five territories. The states tried to recover health care costs associated with smoking in what was called a master settlement agreement.
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In an effort to curb health care costs, the city of New Orleans is offering an anti-smoking course to city employees desperate to beat their tobacco habit. The eight-week program started in March provides weekly therapy in addition to a three-month supply of the anti-smoking drug Chantix.
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Some employers reward employees who quit smoking; others fire them if they cannot. Now, some are choosing not to hire smokers at all. How employers handle smoking in the workforce varies, especially since at least 30 states have passed laws protecting smokers who smoke on their own time from being barred from employment. While smokers have taken on a pariah-like status in the workplace, there are some employers for whom smoking remains an inalienable right. Punishing smokers is not enough to reduce the impact of smoking on health care costs. Employers should provide programs helping promote healthy living.
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CINCINNATI (AP) - Smokers squeezed by soaring cigarette costs and workplace smoking bans are increasingly being hit with another cost increase - this time for health insurance. A growing number of private and public employers are requiring employees who use tobacco to pay higher premiums, hoping that will motivate more of them to stop smoking and lower health care costs for the companies and their workers.
