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Economic Impact of Smoking in Pacific Islands - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/9910eco/
Complete online book. Outlines the different types of cost; who bears the cost; estimating the costs; future smoking costs trends in developing countries; policy implications. |
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The Health Costs of Smoking - http://www.roycastle.org/kats/facts_health.htm
Short factsheet measures the UK cost of tobacco products in different ways. |
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The Health Care Costs of Smoking - http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/337/15/1052
Conclusions: If people stopped smoking, there would be a savings in health care costs, but only in the short term. Eventually, smoking cessation would lead to increased health care costs. The New England Journal of Medicine, October 9, 1997. |
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Costs of Smoking are Triple Those of Illicit Drugs - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7383/242/a
Results of a study on the social costs of drug use in Australia. |
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Secondhand Smoke Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year - http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/17/news/economy/secondhand_smoke/
Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research. |
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$72.7 Billion: Smoking's Annual Health Care Cost - http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/0916/smoking.html
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. |
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Smoking costs faced by employers - http://ash.org/papers/h100.htm
Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research. |
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Costs of Employee Smoking in the Workplace - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/2/187
Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland. |
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Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/3/290?ijkey=ZmVrs9xrf634s
Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications. |
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Costs of Smoking in Australia - http://www.nsma.org.au/costs.htm
Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs. |
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Smoking costs factsheet - http://www.dhss.mo.gov/SmokingAndTobacco/Costs.pdf
From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries. |
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Smoking-Caused Fires Cost $27.2 Billion Annually - http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM
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. |
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Is Tobacco A Development Issue? - http://www.id21.org/tobacco/report1.html
UK Institute of Development Studies discussion asks, what are the consequences of cigarette consumption for the world's poorest regions? Is tobacco control a development issue? Sections include: summary; tobacco, poverty, and health; taxation; tobacco companies; policy lessions; conclusions. |
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Smokers Filling Hospitals - http://www.vhi.ie/news/n070601a.jsp
The cost of smoking in terms of healthcare at one Irish hostpial is estimated: the hospital's budget was about £177 million per year, and about half the 500 to 600 patients were there because of smoking. |
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Cigarette Smoking Adds Billions to Medicare Spending - http://www.oncolink.com/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&id=2625
Report on 1997 Medicare and overall healthcare costs in the U.S. due to cigarette smoking, based on estimates of 1993 spending. |
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The Human and Financial Costs of Smoking - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10763099&dopt=Abstract
Research paper summarizes qualitative and quantitative human and financial tolls from smoking, ranging from cigarette burns, to cigarette ignited fire disasters, to caring for dying smokers and replacing their financial and social contributions to their spouses, children, grandchildren, and the tax base. |
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Jeffrey E. Harris, MIT Home page - http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/index.html
Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products. |
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The Cost of Smoking in Canada, 1991 - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/media/releases/1996/coste.htm
In 1991 the costs of smoking to Canadian society totalled approximately $15B; this report breaks it down by health care costs, absenteeism, fires, and lost future income caused by premature death |
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Motherless Or Fatherless Youth And Social Security Survivors Insurance Costs - http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/BereftYouths.htm
Estimates cost of Social Security payments made for youths who became motherless or fatherless due to tobacco use. |
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Young Healthy Smokers Take Significantly More Days Off Work - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2000-12/CftA-Yhst-0312100.php
Research that followed over 80,000 employees for over 2 years finds smoking has significant costs for employers, even among younger workers. |