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Sites about the economic impact of the tobacco industry, various tobacco policies, and the effects of using tobacco products.

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• $72.7 Billion: Smoking's Annual Health Care Cost

  http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/0916/smoking.html
  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.

• Cigarette Smoking Adds Billions to Medicare Spending

  http://www.oncolink.com/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&id=2625
  Report on 1997 Medicare and overall healthcare costs in the U.S. due to cigarette smoking, based on estimates of 1993 spending.

• Cigarettes Not Only Cause More Time Off Work, But Also Lower Productivity

  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-09/bsj-sno090301.php
  Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.

• Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans

  http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/HarrisVARept97.pdf
  Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.

• Costs of Employee Smoking in the Workplace

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/9/2/187.abstract
  Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.

• Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany

  http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/1/31.abstract
  The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.

• Health Care Costs of Smoking

  http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_14898.htm
  Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking.

• Jeffrey E. Harris, MIT Home page

  http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/index.html
  Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.

• Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/3/290.full?ijkey=ZmVrs9xrf634s
  Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.

• Motherless Or Fatherless Youth And Social Security Survivors Insurance Costs

  http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/BereftYouths.htm
  Estimates cost of Social Security payments made for youths who became motherless or fatherless due to tobacco use.

• Secondhand Smoke Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year

  http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/17/news/economy/secondhand_smoke/
  Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.

• Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs

  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm
  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.

• Smoking-Caused Fires Cost $27.2 Billion Annually

  http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM
  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.

• The Global Impact of Tobacco

  http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4001
  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.

• The Health Care Costs of Smoking

  http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/House_Testimony_Nov_1993.html
  Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America.

• The Health Care Costs of Smoking

  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199710093371506
  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.

• The Human and Financial Costs of Smoking

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10763099?dopt=Abstract
  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.

• Young Healthy Smokers Take Significantly More Days Off Work

  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2000-12/CftA-Yhst-0312100.php
  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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