TOTALLY TOBACCO FREE, NOVEMBER 17, 2005
 As a community-based health care organization dedicated to improving lives, North Oaks firmly believes that providing a totally tobacco-free environment for patients, employees, volunteers, and physicians is the right thing to do.
- 53,000 Americans die each year from the effects of secondhand smoke.
- 6,400 Louisianians die each year from smoking.
- 107,000 kids, now under 18, in Louisiana will die prematurely from smoking.
- 35% of Louisianians aren’t protected by tobacco-free policies at work.
- Tobacco use costs Louisiana $1.2 billion in direct medical expenditures every year, raising the cost of health insurance for everyone.
- Taxpayers spend $511 per household on smoking-caused government expenditures.
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