(Joe Raedle/Getty Images) With the 2023 legislative session around the corner, health advocates continue to push the General Assembly to do more to reduce Indianas smoking rate, which costs the state $3.4 billion in healthcare costs annually, by increasing the cigarette tax
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Dr Christianez Ratna Kiruba is an internal medicine physician from India who is a patient rights advocate and is passionate about analysing public health issues through a gender lens
In 1950 around half of the population of industrialized countries smoked, in countries such as the United States up to 50 percent of adult men were regular smokers
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