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Why is Access to Comprehensive Treatment Important?
Businesses/Employers – Encouraging employees (and their dependents) to quit smoking/using tobacco results in more productive employees and lowers healthcare costs over time. This prudent, forward-looking investment in tough economic times has both short- and long-term benefits.
Public Health/Tobacco Control – Tobacco use is the number-one cause of preventable death and disease in the United States – we cannot have a healthy population until we dramatically reduce tobacco use in this country.
Insurers/Health Plans – Employers are interested in prevention to improve the health of employees and to reduce their healthcare costs and improve productivity. Providing comprehensive benefits to help people quit using tobacco reduces healthcare costs and can be used as a marketplace differentiator among competing health plans in attracting new customers and retaining existing customers.
Policymakers – At a time of record budget deficits and economic uncertainty, helping more tobacco users quit is a critical investment of taxpayer funded healthcare programs and services. Access to preventive services, like tobacco cessation treatments, that are proven to work and save money need to be viewed as foundational elements of any efforts at health reform.
In The News RSS
- Sep 02, 2010
Delayed Quitters
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Expanding Coverage: Medicare Offers New Tobacco Cessation Counseling Benefit
Read the full story - Aug 27, 2010
The E-Cigarette Debate Continues – Drug Delivery Device or Alternative to Cigarettes?
Read the full story - Aug 26, 2010
New Cigarette Tests May Customize Quitting
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Key Dates RSS
- November 12-13, 2010: Treating Tobacco Dependence in Mental Health Settings
- November 6-10, 2010: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
- October 30-4, 2010: American College of Chest Physicians: Chest 2010
- October 28-28, 2010: Multi-State Collaborative for Health Systems Change 2010 Conference
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