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Dick Durbin: $1.6 billion a year on medical care of servicemembers from tobacco-related disease and loss of work.

On the recordJune 17, 2014
$1.6 billion a year on medical care of servicemembers from tobacco-related disease and loss of work.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin highlights the financial burden of tobacco use on military healthcare.

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