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The cost of smoking extends beyond just the high-priced tobacco products. Along side all the medical expenses, insurance premiums are higher for those who smoke, too. Some insurance companies will offer deep discounts on term-life coverage premiums. Often reaching 45 percent! In America, citizens most often receive insurance coverage through their employers. Companies that pay [...]

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer presented a new web-enabled platform at the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Amsterdam. The conference was hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC).

The presentation showed a $656 million dollar savings in medical expenses related to treating lung cancer over the course of five years if Canada's smoking rate were to drop to a mere 11 percent, taking the current number of smokers down by half.

The abstract's author, Dr. Bill Evans M.D., president of the Juravinski Cancer Center at Hamilton Health Services in Hamilton, Ontario, said, Continue Reading