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That's why you don't see many employers buying insurance that covers
smoking cessation programs or the various expensive drugs that can
help people to quit the habit. If they did, they'd be being buying
more years of healthy life per dollar than just about any other way
they could use their money. But most of the savings resulting from
reduced lung cancer, stroke, and heart attacks would go to future
employers of their workers, and so such a move makes little financial
sense.
		-- Phillip Longman, "The Best Care Anywhere",
		   The Washington Monthly,
		   January/February 2005
		   http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0501.longman.html

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