{"id":1902,"date":"2002-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/04\/17\/2002-04-17-smoking-nation-s-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2002-04-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-17T12:00:00","slug":"2002-04-17-smoking-nation-s-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/04\/17\/2002-04-17-smoking-nation-s-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking &#8212; Nation&#8217;s Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/national\/AP-Cost-of-Smoking.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA, GEORGIA, April 11, 2002: Lighting up a cigarette, according to a study recently completed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is costing the country US$3,391 a year per smoker, or $157.7 billion annually for the whole nation. Breaking the cost down, the CDC study estimates that the habit costs $3.45 per pack for medical costs incurred by the smoker and another $3.73 per pack for lost job productivity as a result of early deaths. Considering that in 1999, a pack of cigarettes cost $2.92, society is nowhere near recovering the cost from taxes on the product. Dr. David Fleming, the CDC&#8217;s acting director says, &#8220;The fact that nearly half a million Americans lose their lives each year because of smoking-related illnesses is a significant public health tragedy.&#8221; The article goes on to list other statistics such as, &#8220;Smoking causes an average man to lose more than 13 years of life and an average woman to lose 14.5 years&#8221; and that &#8220;Smoking during pregnancy causes 1,000 infant deaths each year.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ATLANTA, GEORGIA, April 11, 2002: Lighting up a cigarette, according to a study recently completed by the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}