Surf these sites: BERA - Reports -- Set of reports on medical and other costs of smoking. 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. 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 countires; policy implications. Fire Safe Cigarette -- Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes. Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States -- Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications. Medical Expenditures Attributable To Cigarette Smoking, 1993 -- Research performed at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. "The total cost of smoking in the United States amounted to an astounding $72.7 billion in 1993...more more than 11% of personal health care dollars are spent on care of people with smoking-related diseases" Medical-Care Expenditures Attributable to Cigarette Smoking -- United States, 1993 -- From OncoLink, fully referenced and footnoted, the medical bill from smoking: about $50 billion a year. How that breaks down. Figures are from 1994 and don''t include other non-medical costs. 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. 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. Prevention Dollars at Work -- Cost of diseases related to alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs. All illicit drugs combined: about a billion bucks. Tobacco: about fifteen billion bucks. Secondhand Costs of tobacco -- Health care cost for families and children exposed to secondhand smoke, e.g. health care costs of premature birth, sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory synctial virus bronchiolitis, acute otitis media, asthma; also costs of fire and burn related injury from cigarettes. Smoking Impact On Medicaid Costs: $322 Billion In 25 Years -- Summary of paper by Miller and Rice published in the Public Health Reports, March/April 1998. Includes state-by-state breakdown of costs. Smoking and Lifetime Medical Expenditures -- Research concludes "he 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". Smoking costs faced by employers -- Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research. Smoking costs factsheet -- From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries. Smoking-Attributable Medical Care Costs -- Identifies the medical care costs attributable to cigarette smoking for the United States for 1993; describes in detail the collection of econometric models that are used to calculate these costs. 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." 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. Tobacco Facts: The Cost of Tobacco -- Factsheet from Youth Media Network summarizes cost of hospitalizations, lost earnings, doctor visits, care of low-birth-weight babies. All sources cited.
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