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21. Should We Pay People to Be Healthier?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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One in every five deaths in the us. Is attributed to smoking, nearly half a million every year. The chemicals contained in cigarette smoke don't just cause lung cancer but also heart disease, lung disease and diabetes. What if we paid people to be healthier? From th free economics radio network. This is fre economics m d. I'm bapu jena. Each episode i dissect an interesting question at the sweet spot between health and economics. We ask, does it work?

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