Commentary: The Costs of Benefits: Smoking Cessation and Health Care Expenditures
- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Journal of Health Promotion
- Vol. 18 (2) , 123-124
- https://doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-18.2.123
Abstract
Guest commenator Dr. Kenneth E. Warner reflects on the unique contribution of the articles by Martinson et al and Musich et al in this issue in helping to explain why former smokers having higher medical costs than current smokers.Keywords
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