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 $72.7 Billion: Smoking's Annual Health Care Cost Description: 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. (berkeley.edu) |
| CDC's STATE: Tobacco Behavior, Economics & Health Cost Description: 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. (www2.cdc.gov) |
| Cigarette Smoking Adds Billions to Medicare Spending Description: Report on 1997 Medicare and overall healthcare costs in the U.S. due to cigarette smoking, based on estimates of 1993 spending. (oncolink.com) |
| Cigarettes Not Only Cause More Time Off Work, But Also Lower Productivity Description: Reserach summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990. (eurekalert.org) |
| Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans Description: Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans. (mit.edu) |
| Costs of Employee Smoking in the Workplace Description: Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland. (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany Description: The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article. (www3.oup.co.uk) |
| Costs of Smoking are Triple Those of Illicit Drugs Description: Results of a study on the social costs of drug use in Australia. (bmj.com) |
| Costs of Smoking in Australia Description: Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs. (nsma.org.au) |
| Costs of Tobacco Consumption in Sydney Description: Report estimates the medical costs of tobacco in Central Sydney, Australia. (cs.nsw.gov.au) |
| Costs to Employers Description: Breaks down costs to employers of smoking and secondhand smoke. (workingsmokefree.com) |
| Death and Taxes Description: Analysis of Philip Morris study on economics of tobacco use. (ash.org.uk) |
| Economic Damages and the Tobacco Litigation Description: 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. (dmsweb.moore.sc.edu) |
| Economic Impact of Smoking Description: Very short factsheet, but all sources cited. (state.in.us) |
| Economic Impact of Smoking in Pacific Islands Description: 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. (globalink.org) |
| Economics of Tobacco Description: What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions. (factsheets.globalink.org) |
| Fire Safe Cigarette Description: Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes. (burnfoundation.org) |
| Health Care Costs of Smoking Description: Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking. (apha.confex.com) |
| Impact of Cigarette Smoking on Medicaid Costs is $322 Billion in 25 Years Description: University of California health care economists created the first detailed picture of the impact of cigarette smoking on Medicaid costs in all 50 states. (ucsf.edu) |
| Is Tobacco A Development Issue? Description: 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. (id21.org) |
| Jeffrey E. Harris, MIT Home page Description: Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products. (mit.edu) |
| Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States Description: Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications. (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| Money To Burn Description: News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking. (s-t.com) |
| Motherless and Fatherless Youth and Smoking-Attributable Deaths Description: Abstract and full text of article. (idealibrary.com) |
| Motherless Or Fatherless Youth And Social Security Survivors Insurance Costs Description: Estimates cost of Social Security payments made for youths who became motherless or fatherless due to tobacco use. (epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu) |
| Per capita costs of tobacco use (in 1993 U.S. dollars) Description: 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. (ccsa.ca) |
| Secondhand Smoke Costs Description: Secondhand smoke costs you $70 per year, according to an economic analysis by a Indiana University professor. (reuters.com) |
| Smokers Filling Hospitals Description: 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. (vhi.ie) |
| Smoking and Lifetime Medical Expenditures Description: 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". (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| Smoking and the Bottom Line: The Costs of Smoking in the Workplace - Health Canada Tobacco Control Programme Description: Canadian analysis estimates smoking adds about $2000 per year per employee. (hc-sc.gc.ca) |
| Smoking Cessation and Absence from Work Description: Scientific article: quitting smoking reduces absences from work. (idealibrary.com) |
| Smoking costs faced by employers Description: Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research. (ash.org) |
| Smoking costs factsheet Description: From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries. (health.state.mo.us) |
| Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs Description: 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. (cdc.gov) |
| Smoking-Caused Fires Cost $27.2 Billion Annually Description: 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. (epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu) |
| State Estimates of Total Medical Expenditures Attributable to Cigarette Smoking, 1993 Description: 1993 report breaks down costs by state. (socialwelfare.berkeley.edu) |
| The Basis for the Federal Tobacco Law Suit Description: 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. (no-smoking.org) |
| The Cost of Smoking in California, 1999 Description: 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. (dhs.ca.gov) |
| The Costs of Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drugs in Canada, 1992 Description: Tobacco generated more costs than alcohol, and more than 7 times as much as all illegal drugs combined. (ccsa.ca) |
| The Economic Consequences of Smoking in Ontario Description: 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. (idealibrary.com) |
| The Economic Implications of Tobacco Product Sales in a Nontobacco State Description: Research concludes that "reducing or eliminating tobacco product spending in Michigan will increase employment in the state, as well as health." (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| The Economics of Tobacco Description: Includes summary of the cost of smoking in the UK. (ash.org.uk) |
| The Global Impact of Tobacco Description: 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. (corpwatch.radicaldesigns.org) |
| The Health Care Costs of Smoking Description: 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. (content.nejm.org) |
| The Health Care Costs of Smoking Description: Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America. (mit.edu) |
| The Health Costs of Smoking Description: Short factsheet measures the UK cost of tobacco products in different ways. (roycastle.org) |
| The Human and Financial Costs of Smoking Description: 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. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80) |
| The Total Lifetime Costs of Smoking Description: European research measures the total lifetime costs of smoking. (www3.oup.co.uk) |
| Truth About Tobacco: Economic Costs Description: Cost of tobacco in Canada from worker absenteeism, fires, and lost income due to premarure death. (tobacco.aadac.com) |
| Young Healthy Smokers Take Significantly More Days Off Work Description: Research that followed over 80,000 employees for over 2 years finds smoking has significant costs for employers, even among younger workers. (eurekalert.org) |
