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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.

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.

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.

Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans - http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/HarrisVARept97.pdf
Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.

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.

Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany - http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/1/31
The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.

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.

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.

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.

Economics of Tobacco - http://factsheets.globalink.org/en/economics.shtml
What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions.

Fire Safe Cigarette - http://www.burnfoundation.org/firesafecig.html
Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes.

Health Care Costs of Smoking - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_14898.htm
Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smoking costs faced by employers - http://ash.org/papers/h100.htm
Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research.

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.

Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm
CDC report; every pack of cigarettes costs $3.45 for medical care attributable to smoking and $3.73 in productivity losses, for a total cost of $7.18 per pack.

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.

The Basis for the Federal Tobacco Law Suit - http://no-smoking.org/sept99/09-22-99-7.html
Policy and law analysis makes the case that the U.S. Department of Justice should sue the tobacco industry for costs the product incurred, and industry deception and coverup which resulted in increased use.

The Business Case - http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/tobacco/return/index.cfm
Summarizes costs of smoking paid by business and industry.

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.

The Health Care Costs of Smoking - http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/House_Testimony_Nov_1993.html
Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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