Statistic of the Day

[jpmassar]

The study by University of California, San Francisco researchers found that for every dollar spent on the state’s anti-smoking program, health care costs dropped by about $56.

Washington PostActually I don't believe this for a minute. It's one of those if-its-too-good-to-be-true things. But if there's any smidgen of reality to the results at all

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[quietlion]

Unless the study has been running for 80 years, how can it possibly be accurate? All those people not dying in their 50s of lung cancer are getting decades more of expensive treatment.