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Immediate Health Care Savings If Pregnant Women Quit Smoking

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 22nd, 2000

Anti-smoking programs, if effective, would immediately pay for themselves by reducing the number of low birth weight babies and cutting the incidence of heart disease, according to a new study by University of California San Francisco researchers.

The evidence on low birth weight babies adds to a 1997 report by the researchers projecting significant short-term health care savings from reduced incidence of stroke and heart attacks if smoking is cut just 1%.

Most people think health care savings from smoking cessation programs will only show up many years later with a lowered risk of cancer and lung diseases, said the study's author Stanton A. Glantz,...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2000-01-22)

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