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All Minnesotans Pay the Price for <br />Commercial Tobacco’s Harm <br />Commercial tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death <br />and disease, taking the lives of more than 6,300 Minnesotans each year. <br />Smoking costs the state over $9 billion a year: more than $4.7 billion in <br />excess health care costs and $4.7 billion in lost productivity. <br />Every time Big Tobacco addicts another generation of kids to smoking, <br />they put all taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars in healthcare <br />costs to treat tobacco-related diseases. <br />16