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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 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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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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$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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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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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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Cigarettes Not Only Cause More Time Off Work, But Also Lower Productivity - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-09/bsj-sno090301.php
Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990. |
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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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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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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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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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The Global Impact of Tobacco - http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4001
A look at the global costs of growing and using the crop. Written by the San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition and the San Francisco Tobacco Free Project. |
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Money To Burn - http://www.s-t.com/daily/07-97/07-13-97/f01bu207.htm
News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking. |
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The Human and Financial Costs of Smoking - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/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. |