This privatization will inevitably have hugely negative health and economic impacts in a country already struggling to cope with the harms of tobacco, said Anna Gilmore, director of the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, causing approximately 440,000 premature deaths each year and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs attributable to smoking
Smoking status was either self-reported or indicated by levels of a component of nicotine, called cotinine, which is measurable in patients blood
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Casey Laizure, a professor at the University of Tennessee's department of clinical pharmacy, told Insider