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Text Box: Facts About Smoking Smoking costs Indiana The most obvious cost in dollar terms is for healthcare and lost productivity associated with tobacco-related illnesses. Another cost is the pain and suffering of individual smokers and the fact that their quality of life is reduced and their life span shortened by smoking. No matter how you measure it, the price of tobacco use in Indiana is astounding. Nearly $2,000,000,000 are spent annually on tobacco-related healthcare expenses in Indiana.   Smoking costs us all You don't have to be a smoker to feel the pinch of tobacco-related healthcare costs. The tax burden Indiana citizens must bear for state- and federal-government sponsored healthcare programs is staggering with more than $200,000,000 spent annually for tobacco-related illnesses suffered by Indiana's Medicaid recipients. Additional tobacco-related healthcare spending includes other costs, such as direct exposure to secondhand smoke, accidental fires from smoking, and smokeless tobacco use.   Non-healthcare costs In addition to the healthcare costs there are lists of non-health-related expenditures that cost Hoosiers personal expense, increased insurance premiums and taxes. One of these non-health expenses includes residential and commercial property losses from smoking-related fire damage. In addition, employers lose business from lost work productivity due to smoking-related illnesses, poor employee performance and early termination caused by tobacco-related health problems.   www.whitelies.tv

 

Text Box: Smoking Cessation Classes The goal of the Smoking Cessation class is to stress the importance of behavior modification techniques to end smoking for good. Please call the Madison County Community Health Center at 765-641-2601 ext. 124 for dates and times of the next class. Madison County Community Health Centers’ goal is ultimately to help you stop smoking for a healthier and happier future to come.   Door Prizes are offered at each Smoking Cessation Class!   Madison County Community Health Center 1547 Ohio Avenue P.O. Box 349 Anderson, IN 46015 Phone: 641-2601 ext. 124 Fax: 641-2642    Back to Home Page