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Smoking costs faced by employers
Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research.
http://ash.org/papers/h100.htm
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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/
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Fire Safe Cigarette
Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes.
http://www.burnfoundation.org/firesafecig.html
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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