Smoking costs - update

The $1.9 billion figure apparently comes from the Ministry of Health.

The total cost of smoking to the health system is difficult to calculate precisely, but is currently estimated by the Ministry of Health to be at least $1.9b out of the total Health Budget of around $12b.

I'll be curious to see what documentation they have backing that up. I do not expect that the anti-tobbac folks would have mistakenly left more than a billion dollars off of the health care costs....