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• BERA - Reports Set of reports on medical and other costs of smoking.
  
  
• Smoking-Attributable Medical Care Costs Incurred by the State of Texas: 1967-2007 Complete report available online.
  
• 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-Attributable Health-Care Expenditures, Washington State Health-Care Spending Attributable to Cigarette Smoking and to Cigarette Manufacturers' Anti-Competitive Conduct: State of Washington Medicaid Program, 1970-2001.
  
• Fire Safe Cigarette Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes.
  
• Smokers Filling Hospitals 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.
  
• $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.
  
• Death and Taxes Analysis of Philip Morris study on economics of tobacco use.
  
• 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.
  
• Smoking-Caused Fires Cost $27.2 Billion Annually 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.
  
• Smoking cost to employers Article reports on the cost of higher insurance premiums, greater sick time, smoke breaks, lost productivity, higher fire insurance rates, higher maintenance costs.
  
• 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.
  
• Costs of Smoking in Australia Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs.
  
• Costs of employee smoking in the workplace Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.
  
• 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 countries; policy implications.
  
• 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.
  
• The Cost of Smoking in Canada, 1991 Smoking-attributable health care costs in Canada were $2.5 billion (CAN). Additional costs included $1.5 billion for residential care, $2 billion due to increased absenteeism, $80 million due to fires, and $10.5 billion due to lost future income caused by premature death. This report has the details.
  
• The Global Politics of Tobacco A look at the global costs of growing and using the crop.
  
• Money To Burn News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking.
  
• Costs of Tobacco Consumption in Sydney Report estimates the medical costs of tobacco in Central Sydney, Australia.
  
• 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.
  
• Economic Damages and the Tobacco Litigation Public documents pertaining to the calculation of economic damages from tobacco; used at the USC School of Business.
  
• Health Care Costs of Smoking Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking.
  
• Economics of Tobacco What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions.
  
• Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.
  
• 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.
  
• Costs of Tobacco to Wyoming Breaks it down into future earnings forfeited, work days lost, medical costs, Medicaid expenses, and revenue that leaves the state.
  
• Smoking, tobacco costs Medicaid $12.9 billion annually Report: Smoking, tobacco costs Medicaid $12.9 billion annually Report measures the national Medicaid cost of smoking and tobacco at $12.9 billion/year; more than the tobacco settlement payments will cover.
  
• Smoking costs faced by employers Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research.
  
• Young Healthy Smokers Take Significantly More Days Off Work Research that followed over 80,000 employees for over 2 years finds smoking has significant costs for employers, even among younger workers.
  
• Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.
  
• 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.
  
• Smoking Cessation and Absence from Work Scientific article: quitting smoking reduces absences from work.
  
• 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"
  
• 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.
  
• 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."
  
• Motherless and Fatherless Youth and Smoking-Attributable Deaths Abstract and full text of article.
  
• 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".
  
• The Economics of Tobacco Includes summary of the cost of smoking in the UK.
  
• Smoking costs factsheet From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries.
  
• Economic Impact of Smoking Very short factsheet, but all sources cited.
  
• Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• State Estimates of Total Medical Expenditures Attributable to Cigarette Smoking, 1993 1993 report breaks down costs by state.
  
• Impact of Cigarette Smoking on Medicaid Costs is $322 Billion in 25 Years University of California health care economists created the first detailed picture of the impact of cigarette smoking on Medicaid costs in all 50 states.