Sites about the economic impact of the tobacco industry, various tobacco policies, and the effects of using tobacco products.
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Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.
Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.
The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.
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.
Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America.
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.
Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.
Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.
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.
Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.
(August 17, 2005)
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.
(September 16, 1998)
Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.
[PDF] (September 15, 1997)
The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.
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.
Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.
Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.
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.
Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America.
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.
Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.
Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.
Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.
(August 17, 2005)
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.
(September 16, 1998)
Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.
[PDF] (September 15, 1997)
