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As promised in our previous blog, Tobacco Control in Georgia, here I continue to explore topics connected to the local economic and health impacts of smoking, and the corresponding policy responses from the authorities

Georgia: Growing Stronger Together support network, led by the Georgia Foundation for Agriculture, and Rural Georgia: Growing Stronger initiative led by Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and UGA Cooperative Extension Service

Its an expense she can no longer afford

Each cigarette holds 0.70.8 grams of tobacco, producing a consistent burn time that became the benchmark for the industry

If the price of cigarette packs were to increase by 50 percent through taxes, in a decade, 30,000 smoking-attributable deaths would be prevented, and 21,000 strokes would be avoided