> if 1% of smokers quit smoking you'd think that's what they meant, but the article seems to be talking about if 1% of medicaid recipients stopped smoking, not

> if 1% of smokers quit smoking you'd think that's what they meant, but the article seems to be talking about if 1% of medicaid recipients stopped smoking, not medicaid recipients who are smokers only about a quarter are actually smokers (who therefore could conceivably stop) so if 1% of them stopped smoking, we'd be closer to 0.1% of the budget