Title The price of smoking / Frank A. Sloan [and others]

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 313 pages) : illustrations Contents Tabulating the cost of smoking -- Approaches for assessing the cost of smoking -- What we know and don't know about the cost of smoking -- Effects of smoking on mortality -- How much does smoking increase outlays for personal health care? -- Effects of smoking on social security -- Private pensions: do the cross-subsidies mirror those for social security? -- Do nonsmokers cross-subsidize smokers in the market for life insurance? -- Effects of smoking on morbidity, disability, and work loss -- Health effects of smoking on others -- Summing up Summary Annotation What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-old male smoker the cost is $183,000. The total social cost of smoking over a lifetimeincluding both private costs to the smoker and costs imposed on others (including second-hand smoke and costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)comes to $106,000 for a woman and $220,00 for a man. The cost per pack over a lifetime of smoking: almost $40.00. The first study to quantify the cost of smoking in this way, or in such depth, this accessible book not only adds a weapon to the arsenal of antismoking messages but also provides a framework for assessment that can be applied to other health behaviors. The findings on the effects of smoking on Medicare and Medicaid will be surprising and perhaps controversial, for the authors estimate the costs to be much lower than the damage awards being paid to 46 states as a result of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement Analysis BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General ECONOMICS/Political Economy ECONOMICS/Public Economics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index Notes Print version record Subject Smoking -- United States -- Costs -- Longitudinal studies Smoking -- Health aspects -- United States Smoking -- Economic aspects -- United States Longitudinal method. Smoking -- economics Smoking -- adverse effects Longitudinal Studies SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General. PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction. Longitudinal method Smoking -- Economic aspects Smoking -- Health aspects Roken. Kosten. Gezondheid. Economische aspecten. Externe effecten (economie) SUBJECT United States Subject United States Genre/Form Longitudinal studies Form Electronic book Author Sloan, Frank A ISBN 9780262283793 0262283794

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