FACT CHECK: Do smokers cost society money?

Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer.

It's an element of the debate over tobacco that some economists and officials find distasteful. Full Story »

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by Glenn LaBauve - Apr. 9, 2009

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