Search The Directory The Web for Home > Health > Addictions > Substance Abuse > Tobacco > Effects > Costs New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Money To Burn - News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking.   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.   Motherless and Fatherless Youth and Smoking-Attributable Deaths - Abstract and full text of article.   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.   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.   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.   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.   Smoking Cessation and Absence from Work - Scientific article: quitting smoking reduces absences from work.   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".   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.   Smoking costs faced by employers - Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research.   Smoking costs factsheet - From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries.   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-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.   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.   Smoking-Attributable Medical Care Costs Incurred by the State of Texas: 1967-2007 - Complete report available online.   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.   State Estimates of Total Medical Expenditures Attributable to Cigarette Smoking, 1993 - 1993 report breaks down costs by state.   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 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.     [ 1 2 3 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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