Smoking Issues Medical Costs

Health Consequences of Smoking, Surgeon General fact …

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/tobacco/consequences-smoking-factsheet/index.html

The estimated economic costs attributable to smok­ing and exposure to tobacco smoke continue to increase and now approach $300 billion annually, with direct medical costs of at least $130 billion and productivity losses of more than $150 billion a …

Economic Trends in Tobacco | Smoking …

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/economics/econ_facts/index.htm

Cigarette smoking cost the United States more than $600 billion in 2018, including: More than $240 …

The Health Care Costs of Smoking | NEJM

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199710093371506

Cigarette smoking costs weigh heavily on the healthcare system

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-costs-smoking-idUSKBN0JX2BE20141219

Of the $170 billion spent on smoking-related healthcare, more than 60 percent was paid by government sources, they wrote in the American Journal of …

Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/index.htm

The Real Cost of Smoking by State feat. Dr.

https://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/news/real-cost-smoking-state

Jan 15, 2020

Medical costs of smoking in the United States: estimates, …

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/3/290

In this re-analysis, OTA reported the medical costs of smoking to have been $20.8 billion in 1990 dollars, or 3.5% of total personal health expenditures. Compared with the finding …

The financial impact of smoking on health-related costs: …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11502013/

Major conclusions: The overwhelming body of evidence in the literature asserts that smoking imposes costs on an annual basis, that it leads to increased medical costs over the …

Health Care Costs Drop Quickly After Smokers Quit

https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/health-care-costs-drop-quickly-after-smokers-quit

In the new UCSF study, the authors estimate that California – where smoking is well below the national average – spent $15.4 billion less on medical costs in 2009 …

Medical costs of smoking in the United States: estimates, …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10599574/

Differences in methods were associated with implied differences in findings. Data synthesis: With one exception, the studies find the annual medical costs of smoking to constitute …