Smokers' Lost Time, Health Needs Cost State Billions
Charleston Daily Mail › June 10, 2005
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West Virginia smokers cost the state between $1.8 billion and $2 billion a year in lost productivity and health care costs, says the latest statewide assessment on smoking.
Overall, 27 percent of West Virginia adults smoked in 2003, compared to the national average of 22 percent, said the Department of Health and Human Resources in its updated report "Tobacco Is Killing (and Costing) Us."See the full content of this document
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Smokers' Lost Time, Health Needs Cost State Billions
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