The tobacco industry is one of the most profitable businesses in the country, making billions of dollars every year. But the costs of smoking are far higher than the income from cigarette sales.
- Smoking causes more than $193billion each year in health-related costs, including the cost of lost productivity caused by deaths from smoking.
- Smoking-related medical costs averaged more than $96 billion each year between 2000 and 2004.
- Death-related productivity losses from smoking among workers cost the US economy almost $97 billion yearly (average for 2000-2004).
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