Medicaid tobacco cessation: Big gaps remain in efforts to get smokers to quit

New data shows how often state Medicaid programs provide help with smoking cessation. Smoking, the leading cause of preventable disease in the United States, puts a particularly heavy burden on Medicaid, the nation's largest health insurance program. In fact, about one-third of US adults with Medicaid coverage currently smoke, a rate that is roughly twice as high as that for the general public.

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