Résumé :
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Lifetime expenditures on medical care for cigarette smokers are higher than for neversmokers. Expenditures increase with the amount smoked and are as much as 47% higher for male heavy smokers when discounted at 3%. The US population of current and former smokers incurs excess medical expenditures of almost $200 billion every five years. Smokers' excess medical care is largely funded by private health onsurance, but other funding sources, private and public, including out-of-pocket payments, medicare, and medicaid, share in the burden. (R.A.)
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