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Every $1 spent on smoking cessation in Massachusetts, saved $3 in health costs, a study of low-income Bay State residents found. That could bode well for the impact of a new smoking-cessation benefit in Kentucky's Medicaid program.
- Pharmacy Chain With 65 Ky. Stores Will Stop Selling Tobacco
CVS Caremark pharmacies will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its 7,600 U.S. stores by Oct. 1. Kentucky has 65 CVS Caremark stores. This is the first national pharmacy chain to make this decision. "CVS Caremark sets a powerful...
- Key Tools Against Smoking In Last 50 Years Have Been Taxes, Laws, Regulations, Medicine, Education And Cessation Programs
Eight million lives have been saved as a result of the U.S. surgeon general's efforts for tobacco control says an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Surgeon General Luther Terry jump-started America's efforts to battle...
- Kentucky Spends Less Than A Penny Of Its Tobacco-settlement Money On Prevention Programs; Few States Do Very Much
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report says that 15 years after the 1998 state tobacco settlement, Kentucky ranks 38th in the nation in funding tobacco prevention and cessation programs, only 3.7 percent of the amount recommended by the federal Centers...
- Kentucky Ranks 36th For Tobacco Prevention Spending; Many States Have Made Cuts
Though it received $389 million in tobacco-settlement funds in fiscal year 2012, and ranks first or second in tobacco use, Kentucky spent just $2.2 million of that on prevention of tobacco use. The figures rank Kentucky 36th in the nation for helping...
- Kentucky Gets 'f' For Tobacco Control, But Expansion Of Cessation Programs In Medicaid Should Raise Grade
As a proposed statewide smoking ban continues to be debated, Kentucky and Indiana have received dismal grades from the American Lung Association's recently released State of Tobacco Control 2009 report. But it's 2011, and parts of the report...
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Spend $1 on smoking cessation, save $3 in health costs, Massachusetts study finds
Every $1 spent on smoking cessation in Massachusetts, saved $3 in health costs, a study of low-income Bay State residents found. That could bode well for the impact of a new smoking-cessation benefit in Kentucky's Medicaid program.Massachusetts added a smoking-cessation benefit to its Medicaid program in 2006 and "let members choose from any FDA-approved options," reports Martha Bebinger for National Public Radio.
Researchers at George Washington University "found that members who quit saved three times the cost of the program in fewer heart-related hospitalizations after just over one year," Bebinger reports. "The study does not take into account the benefits of avoiding cancer or other long term smoking related illnesses."
Kentucky ranked 36th in the nation for tobacco prevention spending. Though it received $389 million in tobacco-settlment funds in fiscal year 2012, and ranks first or second in tobacco use, Kentucky spent just $2.2 million of that on prevention of tobacco use. It recently added a smoking-cessation benefit to Medicaid, a program that is funded mainly by the federal government but administered by individual states.
- Pharmacy Chain With 65 Ky. Stores Will Stop Selling Tobacco
CVS Caremark pharmacies will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its 7,600 U.S. stores by Oct. 1. Kentucky has 65 CVS Caremark stores. This is the first national pharmacy chain to make this decision. "CVS Caremark sets a powerful...
- Key Tools Against Smoking In Last 50 Years Have Been Taxes, Laws, Regulations, Medicine, Education And Cessation Programs
Eight million lives have been saved as a result of the U.S. surgeon general's efforts for tobacco control says an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Surgeon General Luther Terry jump-started America's efforts to battle...
- Kentucky Spends Less Than A Penny Of Its Tobacco-settlement Money On Prevention Programs; Few States Do Very Much
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report says that 15 years after the 1998 state tobacco settlement, Kentucky ranks 38th in the nation in funding tobacco prevention and cessation programs, only 3.7 percent of the amount recommended by the federal Centers...
- Kentucky Ranks 36th For Tobacco Prevention Spending; Many States Have Made Cuts
Though it received $389 million in tobacco-settlement funds in fiscal year 2012, and ranks first or second in tobacco use, Kentucky spent just $2.2 million of that on prevention of tobacco use. The figures rank Kentucky 36th in the nation for helping...
- Kentucky Gets 'f' For Tobacco Control, But Expansion Of Cessation Programs In Medicaid Should Raise Grade
As a proposed statewide smoking ban continues to be debated, Kentucky and Indiana have received dismal grades from the American Lung Association's recently released State of Tobacco Control 2009 report. But it's 2011, and parts of the report...