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California’s anti-smoking push spurs big savings on health costs, finds study of program’s 30-year history
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California’s anti-smoking push spurs big savings on health costs, finds study of program’s 30-year history

by Laura Kurtzman, University of California, San Francisco Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the late 1980s, when smoking was still allowed on some airline flights, California boosted its tax on cigarettes from 10 to 35 cents a pack, devoting 5 cents to programs to prevent smoking. The newly created California Tobacco Control Program funded anti-tobacco...