{"id":4086,"date":"2015-05-09T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2015-05-09T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:39:48","slug":"the-cost-of-smoking-a-manitoba-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-cost-of-smoking-a-manitoba-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Smoking: A Manitoba Study<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cigarette smoking costs Manitoba\u2019s public healthcare system an extra $244 million a year, according to a new study from the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy.<\/p>\n<p>The report also\u00a0shows that the percentage of Manitobans who smoke is steadily dropping. In 1989, 22% of Manitobans smoked daily and 65% were casual or former smokers. By 2011, these numbers were 14% and 42%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The authors linked 45,000 Manitobans\u2019 survey responses on smoking with records of their use of health services to measure the added financial burden of smoking on the Manitoba\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>The study used information on health service use spanning 23 years, from 1989 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umanitoba.ca\/faculties\/health_sciences\/medicine\/units\/community_health_sciences\/departmental_units\/mchp\/cost_smoking.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Manitoba Centre for Health Policy <\/em>in\u00a0<strong>May<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cigarette smoking costs Manitoba\u2019s public healthcare system an extra $244 million a year, according to a new study from the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. The report also\u00a0shows that the percentage of Manitobans who smoke is steadily dropping. In 1989, 22% of Manitobans smoked daily and 65% were casual or former smokers. By 2011, these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[51,847,476,2425,1666],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-health","tag-manitoba-en","tag-public-health","tag-public-policy","tag-smoking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-13U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}