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• $72.7 Billion: Smoking's Annual Health Care Cost   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• BERA - Reports   [rate it] [review it]
  Set of reports on medical and other costs of smoking.

• CDC's STATE: Tobacco Behavior, Economics & Health Cost   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Cigarettes Not Only Cause More Time Off Work, But Also Lower Productivity   [rate it] [review it]
  Reserach summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.

• Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans   [rate it] [review it]
  Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.

• Costs of Employee Smoking in the Workplace   [rate it] [review it]
  Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.

• Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany   [rate it] [review it]
  The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.

• Costs of Smoking are Triple Those of Illicit Drugs   [rate it] [review it]
  Results of a study on the social costs of drug use in Australia.

• Costs of Smoking in Australia   [rate it] [review it]
  Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs.

• Costs of Tobacco Consumption in Sydney   [rate it] [review it]
  Report estimates the medical costs of tobacco in Central Sydney, Australia.

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