The federal government is spending more than $13 million on studies
designed to determine how a variety of groups can learn to quit smoking.
This month the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a
five-year study to Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., to examine how
exercise can get depressed smokers to stop. The first grant amounts to
$581,991.
The depressed are not the only ones to receive attention.
The agency is currently funding cessation studies for American Indians ($2,899,954); Chinese and Vietnamese men ($424,875); postmenopausal women ($4,151,850); the homeless ($392,322); Korean youth
($94,580); Schizophrenics ($266,554); Brazilian smokers ($174,637);
Latino HIV-positive smokers ($223,265); and the LGBT community
($1,929,152).
Yale University is studying how to get“Heavy Drinkers” to stop smoking at the cost of $416,951 to the taxpayer. Other projects seek to use Twitter to provide “social support to smokers” ($659,469), and yoga ($1,178,011).
There are hundreds more active studies, and these projects alone total $13,393,611.
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