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The statement also noted that patients kidney function should be checked before they start treatment
Research has shown that people have trouble quitting for many reasons: people switch to modified brands instead, cigarettes are extremely addictive (this is hard to overstate), former smokers relapse, they lack assistance in quitting, they are afraid of weight gain, and the lack of increase in the cost of cigarettes removes a financial motivation to quit (since more expensive cigarettes would encourage or oblige some smokers to quit)
In California, which has a history of unusually aggressive antismoking programs, the decrease was even larger: Only 23% of all smokers smoked at least a pack a day in 2007, according to the study, which mined data from two long-running government surveys
The actual cost to households is higher than both the $600 estimate before behavioral effects and the $200 to $300 after, because neither accounts for lower incomes as tariffs shrink output, nor the loss in consumer choice as people switch to alternatives that do not face tariffs
