public housing

Study: Banning smoking in subsidized housing could save millions in health care costs

lborkowski | April 26, 2013

by Kim Krisberg Another day, another study that shows investing in public health interventions can make a serious dent in health care spending. A new study recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that banning smoking in all U.S. subsidized housing could yield cost savings of about $521 million every year. That total includes $341 million in secondhand smoke-related health care expenditures, $108 million in renovation expenses and $72 million in smoking-attributable fire losses. In fact, just prohibiting smoking in public housing alone would result in a savings…