Willett, Jeff; Newman; Ph.D.; Ian; Wiese, Cheryl; Emont; … - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2003
for over 400,000 deaths annually. In Nebraska each year, 2,400 adults die prematurely because of cigarette smoking.1 It is … smoking is responsible for $419 million of Nebraska's annual health care costs (representing approximately 7 percent of the … state's annual health care costs including 12 percent of Nebraska's annual Medicaid expenditures), and smoking …