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Jump to full article: La Prensa (pa), 2004-03-23
Intro: The Costa Rican Department of Social Security (CCSS) studies to demand to the tobacco companies by the damage that they are causing in the health in this country, whose annual cost of extreme attention near 59 million dollars.
The demand, that the institution has been studying for several months, would be against Philip Morris Central America and the British American Tobacco, the two that operate in Costa Rica, informed to the Costa Rican press sources into the CCSS.
The expenses which the Social Insurance incurs are by medical consultations, hospitalizations, attention of urgencies and payment of incapacities of active and passive smokers (who inhale the smoke of smokers).
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