Hurt, MD, Head of the Nicotine Dependence Center at Mayo Clinic, as saying: For patients who have been through addictions treatment, half of their deaths will come from tobacco, while one-third will come from alcohol-related causes. Then there is this startling statement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Smoking tobacco causes more deaths among clients in substance abuse treatment than the alcohol or drug use that brings them to treatment. SAMHSA also reports that, in a study of 845 people who had been treated for addiction, 51 percent of deaths were attributed to tobacco-related causes
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This year, her Astoria, Ore.-based company was overwhelmed by orders from tobacco users slammed by "the market collapse, the recession, then getting hit with exorbitant tobacco taxes." Moore doesn't use tobacco herself but has no misgivings about her business