- $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.
(Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It - Economics of Tobacco
What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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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Article reports on the cost of higher insurance premiums, greater sick time, smoke breaks, lost productivity, higher fire insurance rates, higher maintenance costs.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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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