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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
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10763099&dopt=Abstract
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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
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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
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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 c
http://www.id21.org/tobacco/report1.html
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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