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

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

» Cigarettes Not Only Cause More Time Off Work, But Also Lower Productivity
   Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.
   http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-09/bsj-sno090301.php

» Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans
   Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.
   http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/HarrisVARept97.pdf

» Costs of Employee Smoking in the Workplace
   Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/2/187

» Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany
   The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.
   http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/1/31

» Costs of Smoking are Triple Those of Illicit Drugs
   Results of a study on the social costs of drug use in Australia.
   http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7383/242/a

» Costs of Smoking in Australia
   Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs.
   http://www.nsma.org.au/costs.htm

» 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.
   http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/9910eco/

» Economics of Tobacco
   What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions.
   http://factsheets.globalink.org/en/economics.shtml

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

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

» Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States
   Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/3/290?ijkey=ZmVrs9xrf634s

» Money To Burn
   News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking.
   http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/07-97/07-13-97/f01bu207.htm

» 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.
   http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/BereftYouths.htm

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

» Smoking costs faced by employers
   Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research.
   http://ash.org/papers/h100.htm

» Smoking costs factsheet
   From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries.
   http://www.dhss.mo.gov/SmokingAndTobacco/Costs.pdf

» Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs
   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.
   http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm

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

» The Basis for the Federal Tobacco Law Suit
   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.
   http://no-smoking.org/sept99/09-22-99-7.html

» The Business Case
   Summarizes costs of smoking paid by business and industry.
   http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/tobacco/return/index.cfm

» The Global Impact of Tobacco
   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.
   http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4001

» The Health Care Costs of Smoking
   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.
   http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/337/15/1052

» The Health Costs of Smoking
   Short factsheet measures the UK cost of tobacco products in different ways.
   http://www.roycastle.org/kats/facts_health.htm

» The Human and Financial Costs of Smoking
   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 s
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10763099?dopt=Abstract

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