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    <title>Seconhand Smoke Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year</title>
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    <description>Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:28:19 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany</title>
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    <description>The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:15:21 -0500</pubDate>
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    <title>Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs</title>
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    <description>CDC report; every pack of cigarettes costs $3.45 for medical care attributable to smoking and $3.73 in productivity losses, for a total cost of $7.18 per pack.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:38:26 -0500</pubDate>
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    <title>$72.7 Billion: Smoking&#039;s Annual Health Care Cost</title>
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    <description>The total cost of caring for people with health problems caused by cigarette smoking is about $72.7 billion per year, according to health economists at the University of California. &quot;You expect a figure of this magnitude for the impact of smoking on health care, when you consider that one in five deaths per year is due to cigarette use,&quot; said the study&#039;s author.  Smoking accounted for 11.8 percent of all  medical expenditures in the U.S.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:36:44 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>The Global Impact of Tobacco</title>
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    <description>A look at the global costs of growing and using the crop.  Written by the San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition and the San Francisco Tobacco Free Project.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:04:48 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Economic Impact of Smoking in Pacific Islands</title>
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    <description>Complete online book. Outlines the different types of cost; who bears the cost; estimating the costs; future smoking costs trends in developing countries; policy implications.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:12:38 -0500</pubDate>
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    <title>Fire Safe Cigarette</title>
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    <description>Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:36:24 -0400</pubDate>
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