- $72.7 Billion: Smoking's Annual Health Care Cost
The total cost of caring for people with health problems caused by cigarette smoking is about $72.7 billion per year, according to health economists at the University of California. "You expect a figure of this magnitude for the impact of smoking on health care, when you consider that one in five deaths per year is due to cigarette use," said the study's author. Smoking accounted for 11.8 percent of all medical expenditures in the U.S.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/0916/smoking.html
- Costs of Smoking in Australia
Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs.
http://www.nsma.org.au/costs.htm
- Economics of Tobacco
What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions.
http://factsheets.globalink.org/en/economics.shtml
- Health Care Costs of Smoking
Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_14898.htm
- Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States
Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/3/290?ijkey=ZmVrs9xrf634s
- Money To Burn
News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking.
http://www.s-t.com/daily/07-97/07-13-97/f01bu207.htm
- Saving Lives, Saving Money
American Legacy Foundation report on why states should invest in a tobacco-free future, covers costs of smoking, how much tobacco products are costing states.
http://www.americanlegacy.org/content/PDF/278055.pdf
- Secondhand Smoke Costs
Secondhand smoke costs you $70 per year, according to an economic analysis by a Indiana University professor.
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=healthnews&StoryID=1741542
- Smoking and Lifetime Medical Expenditures
Research concludes "the cumulative impact of excess medical care required by smokers at all ages while alive outweighs shorter life expectancy, and smokers incur higher expenditures for medical care over their lifetimes than never-smokers".
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=m&form=6&uid=1588892&Dopt=r
- Smoking cost to employers
Article reports on the cost of higher insurance premiums, greater sick time, smoke breaks, lost productivity, higher fire insurance rates, higher maintenance costs.
http://fl.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000501fsmokes$01.frm
- Smoking-Caused Fires Cost $27.2 Billion Annually
Analysis shows smoking is a leading cause of fires and death from fires globally, resulting in an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion in the United States and $27.2 billion worldwide in 1998.
http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM
- The Cost of Smoking in California, 1999
Extensive report adds up the cost to $15.8 billion, breaks it down by type of cost, disease, gender, county, and includes estimates for lost productivity, secondhand smoke. PDF format.
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/documents/CostOfSmoking1999.pdf
- The Cost of Smoking in Canada, 1991
Smoking-attributable health care costs in Canada were $2.5 billion (CAN). Additional costs included $1.5 billion for residential care, $2 billion due to increased absenteeism, $80 million due to fires, and $10.5 billion due to lost future income caused by premature death. This report has the details.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/publicat/cdic/cdic181/cd181c_e.html
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