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New health care law would lead to more smoking, disease and tobacco industry profits

  • Written by Daniel Orenstein, Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Francisco
imageSmoking kills close to 440,000 people in the U.S. each year. California Department of Health Services

House Republicans introduced their American Health Care Act on March 7 to “repeal and replace Obamacare” (the Affordable Care Act). Neither the bill nor Speaker Ryan’s website announcement mentions “tobacco.” But as...

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