Witness Focuses on Cost of Treating Smokers
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From Bloomberg News
The cost of treating the health problems of people who started smoking before they were 21 will be $840 billion by 2050, a government witness said in a federal lawsuit in Washington against cigarette makers.
The witness, Timothy Wyant, a biostatistics expert, testified as the government sought to persuade a U.S. District Court judge to order tobacco companies to pay for a $130-billion stop-smoking plan.
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