If they falsify their insurance applications, he said, theyre committing fraud, and theoretically, they could be prosecuted. Cancer Society opposed surcharge Surprisingly enough, the American Cancer Society opposed letting insurers charge extra to tobacco users
Bob Dylan smokes a cigarette, Copenhagen, 1966
While the adaptations of ICD-7 influenced the development of ICD-8 to meet the needs of hospitals, the use of ICD for indexing hospital medical records increased rapidly
The list of illnesses caused by tobacco use is long and contains many of the most common causes of death, including heart disease, stroke, lung disease, many forms of cancer, and vascular diseases
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