» $72.7 Billion: Smoking's Annual Health Care Cost    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    http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/0916/smoking.html

» Cigarette Smoking Adds Billions to Medicare Spending    Report on 1997 Medicare and overall healthcare costs in the U.S. due to cigarette smoking, based on estimates of 1993 spending.    http://www.oncolink.com/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&id=2625

» Cigarettes Not Only Cause More Time Off Work, But Also Lower Productivity    Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-09/bsj-sno090301.php

» Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans    Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.    http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/HarrisVARept97.pdf

» Costs of Employee Smoking in the Workplace    Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.    http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/2/187

» Costs of Health Damage and Productivity Losses Attributable to Smoking in Germany    The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.    http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/1/31

» Costs of Smoking are Triple Those of Illicit Drugs    Results of a study on the social costs of drug use in Australia.    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7383/242/a

» Costs of Smoking in Australia    Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs.    http://www.nsma.org.au/costs.htm

» Costs of Tobacco Consumption in Sydney    Report estimates the medical costs of tobacco in Central Sydney, Australia.    http://www.cs.nsw.gov.au/corporate/tobaccocp/BKG-2.htm

» Costs to Employers    Breaks down costs to employers of smoking and secondhand smoke.    http://www.workingsmokefree.com/whygosmokefree/costs.htm

» Economic Impact of Smoking    Very short fact sheet, but all sources cited.    http://www.in.gov/isdh/programs/tobacco/economic.htm

» Economic Impact of Smoking in Pacific Islands    Complete online book. Outlines the different types of cost; who bears the cost; estimating the costs; future smoking costs trends in developing countries; policy implications.    http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/9910eco/

» Economics of Tobacco    What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions.    http://factsheets.globalink.org/en/economics.shtml

» Fire Safe Cigarette    Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes.    http://www.burnfoundation.org/firesafecig.html

» Health Care Costs of Smoking    Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking.    http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_14898.htm

» Impact of Cigarette Smoking on Medicaid Costs is $322 Billion in 25 Years    University of California health care economists created the first detailed picture of the impact of cigarette smoking on Medicaid costs in all 50 states.    http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1998/03/309_cig.htm

» Is Tobacco A Development Issue?    UK Institute of Development Studies discussion asks, what are the consequences of cigarette consumption for the world's poorest regions? Is tobacco control a development issue? Sections include: summary; tobacco, poverty, and health; taxation; tobacco co    http://www.id21.org/tobacco/report1.html

» Jeffrey E. Harris, MIT Home page    Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.    http://www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/index.html

» Medical Costs of Smoking in the United States    Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.    http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/3/290?ijkey=ZmVrs9xrf634s

» Money To Burn    News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking.    http://www.s-t.com/daily/07-97/07-13-97/f01bu207.htm

» 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.    http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/BereftYouths.htm

» Seconhand Smoke Price Tag: $10 Billion a Year    Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.    http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/17/news/economy/secondhand_smoke/

» 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.    http://www.vhi.ie/news/n070601a.jsp

» Smoking costs faced by employers    Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research.    http://ash.org/papers/h100.htm

» Smoking costs factsheet    From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries.    http://www.dhss.mo.gov/SmokingAndTobacco/Costs.pdf

» Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs    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.    http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm

» 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.    http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM

» The Basis for the Federal Tobacco Law Suit    Policy and law analysis makes the case that the U.S. Department of Justice should sue the tobacco industry for costs the product incurred, and industry deception and coverup which resulted in increased use.    http://no-smoking.org/sept99/09-22-99-7.html

» The Cost of Smoking in Canada, 1991    In 1991 the costs of smoking to Canadian society totalled approximately $15B; this report breaks it down by health care costs, absenteeism, fires, and lost future income caused by premature death    http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/media/releases/1996/coste.htm

» The Global Impact of Tobacco    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.    http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4001

» The Health Care Costs of Smoking    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.    http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/337/15/1052

» The Health Costs of Smoking    Short factsheet measures the UK cost of tobacco products in different ways.    http://www.roycastle.org/kats/facts_health.htm

» The Human and Financial Costs of Smoking    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 s    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10763099&dopt=Abstract

» Young Healthy Smokers Take Significantly More Days Off Work    Research that followed over 80,000 employees for over 2 years finds smoking has significant costs for employers, even among younger workers.    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2000-12/CftA-Yhst-0312100.php