| Smoking costs faced by employers - Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research.
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| Economic Impact of Smoking in Pacific Islands - 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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| CDC's STATE: Tobacco Behavior, Economics & Health Cost - Can select a state and find out the smoking-attributable expenditures for that state. Breaks the cost down by ambulatory, hospital, nursing home, drug, and other expenses.
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| Fire Safe Cigarette - Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes.
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| Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs - 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.
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| Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States - Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.
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| Per capita costs of tobacco use (in 1993 U.S. dollars) - Costs shown broken down into direct health care costs, costs of indirect mortality and indirect morbidity; for Canada, the U.S., and Australia. Supporting research identified for each cost estimate.
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| State Estimates of Total Medical Expenditures Attributable to Cigarette Smoking, 1993 - 1993 report breaks down costs by state.
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| Motherless Or Fatherless Youth And Social Security Survivors Insurance Costs - Estimates cost of Social Security payments made for youths who became motherless or fatherless due to tobacco use.
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| Economic Damages and the Tobacco Litigation - Collection of evidence introduced into trial on the costs tobacco products place on the smoker, the family, government, and society; most documents in PDF format.
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| 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.
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| The Economic Implications of Tobacco Product Sales in a Nontobacco State - Research concludes that "reducing or eliminating tobacco product spending in Michigan will increase employment in the state, as well as health."
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| 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".
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| Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany - The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.
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| Motherless and Fatherless Youth and Smoking-Attributable Deaths - Abstract and full text of article.
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| Costs of Smoking in Australia - Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs.
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| Costs of Tobacco Consumption in Sydney - Report estimates the medical costs of tobacco in Central Sydney, Australia.
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| Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarettes and Cigarette Lights fires - Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files.
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| Impact of Cigarette Smoking on Medicaid Costs is $322 Billion in 25 Years - University of California health care economists created the first detailed picture of the impact of cigarette smoking on Medicaid costs in all 50 states.
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| Smoking Cessation and Absence from Work - Scientific article: quitting smoking reduces absences from work.
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| Costs of Employee Smoking in the Workplace - Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.
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| Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans - Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.
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| Costs of Smoking are Triple Those of Illicit Drugs - Results of a study on the social costs of drug use in Australia.
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| The Economic Consequences of Smoking in Ontario - Research measures the total cost of smoking in Ontario is US$2.91 billion. Associated with these economic costs are health-related harms: 69,318 hospital separations; 1,007,647 days stay in hospitals; 11,648 deaths resulting in more than 171,443 person-years lost.
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| Health Care Costs of Smoking - Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking.
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| The Economics of Tobacco - Includes summary of the cost of smoking in the UK.
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| Economics of Tobacco - What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions.
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| The Health Care Costs of Smoking - Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America.
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| Money To Burn - News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking.
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| $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.
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| Death and Taxes - Analysis of Philip Morris study on economics of tobacco use.
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| Cigarettes Not Only Cause More Time Off Work, But Also Lower Productivity - Reserach summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.
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| Young Healthy Smokers Take Significantly More Days Off Work - 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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| Secondhand Smoke Costs - Secondhand smoke costs you $70 per year, according to an economic analysis by a Indiana University professor.
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| The Costs of Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drugs in Canada, 1992 - Tobacco generated more costs than alcohol, and more than 7 times as much as all illegal drugs combined.
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| Economic Impact of Smoking - Very short factsheet, but all sources cited.
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| Truth About Tobacco: Economic Costs - Cost of tobacco in Canada from worker absenteeism, fires, and lost income due to premarure death.
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| The Health Costs of Smoking - Short factsheet measures the UK cost of tobacco products in different ways.
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| The Total Lifetime Costs of Smoking - European research measures the total lifetime costs of smoking.
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| Smokers Filling Hospitals - 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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| Smoking And Tobacco Factsheets - From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
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| The Human and Financial Costs of Smoking - 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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| The Health Care Costs of Smoking - 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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| Cigarette Smoking Adds Billions to Medicare Spending - 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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| Is Tobacco A Development Issue? - 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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| The Basis for the Federal Tobacco Law Suit - 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.
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| Jeffrey E. Harris, MIT Home page - Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.
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| Costs to Employers - Breaks down costs to employers of smoking and secondhand smoke.
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| Smoking and the Bottom Line: The Costs of Smoking in the Workplace - Health Canada Tobacco Control Programme - Canadian analysis estimates smoking adds about $2000 per year per employee.
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| The Global Impact of Tobacco - 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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