Make cigarette companies pay for their users’ medical bills

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   MeterMan on February 23, 2024 at 12:11 am

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   Idea: Make cigarette companies pay for their users’ medical bills

   Link: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar...

   In addition to excessive healthcare costs, cigarettes also kill millions each year. Let’s ban them completely!

   Portugal to ban smoking in most places, restrict tobacco sales

   Link: https://www.reuters.com/business

   Portugal’s government on Thursday presented legislation to extend a ban on smoking to outdoor areas including covered terraces and to restrict tobacco sales, as it hopes to raise a tobacco-free generation by 2040.

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   RudeJude on February 22, 2024 at 10:32 pm

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   Idea: Make cigarette companies pay for their users’ medical bills

   Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/brazil-sue...

   A few years back, Brazil sued cigarette companies to make them pay for smoking-associated public healthcare costs.

   Brazil sues Big Tobacco over health costs from smoking

   Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/

   Brazil is suing tobacco companies for costs associated with treating tobacco-related illnesses, a move health officials applauded.

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   Clever Dick on February 22, 2024 at 9:23 pm

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   Idea: Make cigarette companies pay for their users’ medical bills

   Link: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tobacc...

   The U.S. industry pays billions of dollars annually in healthcare costs. Other countries should follow suit!
   https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tobacco-companies-pay-billions-to-compensate-for-smoking-related-illness-is-it-enough

   Tobacco companies pay billions to compensate for smoking-related illness. Is it enough?

   Link: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/hea

   April 15 is Tax Day, as well as the date each year on which the largest tobacco companies pay $9 billion dollars to states because of tobacco-related illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. But what is the real cost of these health problems?

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   8-BIT BOBBY on February 22, 2024 at 8:46 am

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   Idea: Make cigarette companies pay for their users’ medical bills

   Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-you...

   Smoking is one of the biggest burdens on the global economy. It’s time we passed on these costs to cigarette manufacturers.

   Smoking costs the world economy $1 trillion per year, World Health Organization says

   Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/n

   The study was released Tuesday by the WHO and the National Cancer Institute.

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