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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Smoking cessation programs make up $75 million of the economic stimulus bill making its way through the Senate, according to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who sponsored the funding.
Sen. Tom Harkin's office says smoking causes $110 billion in health costs each year.
Harkin said the programs were an attempt to bolster the economy by lowering the soaring health-care costs smoking causes each year.
The money will be used to bolster existing anti-smoking campaigns run by the Department of Health and Human Services and to buy new equipment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tests the contents of cigarettes.
What about all the southern states that produce tobacco? What about the medical professionals that recieve the money for care, what about undertakers? Wont this HURT them? We need new machines to tell us that cigarettes are bad??????? How is this economic stimulus????
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