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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sloan, Frank A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smoking--United States--Costs--Longitudinal studies.

Smoking.

Smoking--Health aspects--United States.

Smoking--Economic aspects--United States.

Smoking--Economic aspects.

Smoking--Health aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Longitudinal studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 313 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]

System Details:

text file

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.

Contents:

1 Tabulating the Cost of Smoking 1

2 Approaches for Assessing the Cost of Smoking 23

3 What We Know and Don't Know about the Cost of Smoking 43

4 Effects of Smoking on Mortality 77

5 How Much Does Smoking Increase Outlays for Personal Health Care? 99

6 Effects of Smoking on Social Security 133

7 Private Pensions: Do the Cross-Subsidies Mirror Those for Social Security? 163

8 Do Nonsmokers Cross-Subsidize Smokers in the Market for Life Insurance? 181

9 Effects of Smoking on Morbidity, Disability, and Work Loss 197

10 Health Effects of Smoking on Others 219.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262283793

0262283794

OCLC:

228171763

Access Restriction:

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