Effect of the California tobacco control program on personal health care expenditures.

Large state tobacco control programs have been shown to reduce smoking and would be expected to affect health care costs. We investigate the effect of California's large-scale tobacco control program on aggregate personal health care expenditures in the state.Cointegrating regressions were used...

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Main Authors: James M Lightwood, Alexis Dinno, Stanton A Glantz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-08-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2522256?pdf=render