Economic Impact Websites

Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.

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.

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.

Estimates cost of Social Security payments made for youths who became motherless or fatherless due to tobacco use.

Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.

Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking.

Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America.

Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.

Research that followed over 80,000 employees for over 2 years finds smoking has significant costs for employers, even among younger workers.

Report on 1997 Medicare and overall healthcare costs in the U.S. due to cigarette smoking, based on estimates of 1993 spending.

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.

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 spouses, children, grandchildren, and the tax base.

Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.

Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.

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.

The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.