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Smoking burns a large hole in the economy. Including direct health care expenditures ($96 billion) and productivity losses ($97 billion), the economic burden of smoking on the United States hit $193 billion per year, the CDC said.

On the plus side, the US smoking rate has dropped below 20%.

[via Reuters]

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