Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs --- United States, 1995--1999 Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and produces substantial health-related economic costs to society (1, 2). This report presents the annual estimates of the disease impact of smoking in the United States during 1995--1999. CDC ...
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From the pubDate issue of Berkeleyan, the faculty staff newspaper of the University of California, Berkeley. Berkvolume, Berknum.
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SMOKING IN THE WORKPLACE COSTS EMPLOYERS MONEY INTRODUCTION ELIMINATE SMOKING IN THE WORKPLACE HOW SMOKING COSTS THE EMPLOYER HOW TO BEGIN SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Businesses today desperately seek ways to contain the costs they must pay for health insurance for their employees by limiting coverage, subscribing to HMO's, and increasing deductibles. CEO's cast anxious glances over their shoulders as ...
The Fire-Safe Cigarette: the Search for a Standard For more information, see Progress Towards a Fire-Safe Cigarette published in JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, Volume 16, 1995, Number 4. ABSTRACT About 1, 000 deaths, 3, 000 serious injuries, and several billion dollars in costs of property loss, health care and pain and suffering, result each year in the U.S. from fires started by dropped ...
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Fact Sheet The NSW Quit Campaign FACT SHEET 7 COMMUNITY COSTS OF SMOKING The costs of tobacco smoking can be looked at in a number of ways. The most obvious cost in dollar terms is for health care and lost productivity associated with tobacco-related illness. Another cost - which is difficult to measure in dollar terms - is the pain and suffering of individual smokers and the fact that their ...
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Tobacco Control Plan Costs of Tobacco Consumption in CSAHS To estimate the medical cost of tobacco use in Central Sydney Area Health Service, the amount of mortality and hospital utilisation by residents of Central Sydney associated with tobacco use was calculated. A list of tobacco-related diseases (developed in earlier attempts to estimate the cost of tobacco use in other areas) (Holman and ...
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4101.2: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 - Board 4 Health care costs of smoking Bruce N. Leistikow, MD, MS and Dan C. Martin, BS. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Univ. California, 1 Shields Av, Davis, CA 95616 Objective. To assess lifetime smoking-attributable (SA) healthcare costs, including largely nonfatal disease (debility) costs. Design. Literature review to locate debilities a) very likely ...
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Testimony of JEFFREY E. HARRIS MD PHD Before the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. House of Representatives In Public Hearings on the Financing Provisions Of the Administration's Health Security Act 1100 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C. Thursday, November 18, 1993 INTRODUCTION I am a practicing primary-care internist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an ...
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JC Penney North Dartmouth Mall They have money to burn Smokers cough up big bucks to feed habit By Vivian Marino, Associated Press writer Marcy Balk figures she could have bought a new car or taken her husband and two children on a luxury vacation had she saved and invested all the money spent over two decades on cigarettes. I never really sat down and did the numbers (but) ... I smoked one and ...
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Smokers not only take more time off work, but they are also less productive when they are working, shows research in Tobacco Control. In 1990 the US Office of Technology Assessment estimated that smokers cost employers $47 billion dollars in premature death and disability.
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Young healthy people who smoke had substantially more lost work days than their non-smoking colleagues, finds research in Tobacco Control. Men smokers had more lost work days than women smokers, the study showed.
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