Cigarette: R$ 1 Profit From Industry Is Equal to R$ 5 Costs with Diseases

For each R$ 1 profit from the tobacco industry, Brazil spends R$ 5 with diseases caused by smoking. The data are part of the study A Account That the Tobacco Industry Does Not Count, published on this Thursday (28) by the National Cancer Institute (Inca) and the Ministry of Health. The document shows that each R$ 156,000 of tobacco companies established in Brazil with the sale of legal cigarettes was equivalent to a death by ischemic heart disea…