A study from the University of California, San Francisco (a school that has long specialized in smoking and tobacco studies) states that in 2009, smoking-related illnesses cost the state $18 billion — $487 per person — and killed more people than AIDS, diabetes or Alzheimer’s. That cost is $4,600 per smoker, and includes not only … Continue reading Smoking’s toll in California — $18 billion a year, more deaths than AIDS, Alzhemier’s or diabetes