Background Tobacco smoking is the cause of many preventable diseases and premature
deaths in the UK and around the world. It poses enormous health-and non-health-related …

Objective To investigate the tobacco-attributable burden on disease, medical costs,
productivity losses and informal caregiving; and to estimate the health and economic gains …

In one form or another, health care is now being rationed; not every patient receives all that
is possibly beneficial for him-sometimes with tragic consequences. Decisions to ration raise …

The impact of cigarette smoking on morbidity and mortality in this country is enormous. It is
the cause of one out of every six deaths in the US, and is linked to conditions ranging from …

This article is concerned with establishing a methodology for the measurement of the social
cost of tobacco consumption, and with using that methodology to estimate the relative …

Chronic diseases have serious impacts: they not only cause premature death, but have
major adverse effects on the quality of life of affected individuals and create large adverse …

In 1991, smoking-attributable health care costs in Canada were $2.5 billion (CAN).
Additional smoking-attributable costs included $1.5 billion for residential care, $2 billion due …

The study of economic costs of substance abuse, namely, abuse of tobacco, alcohol and
illicit drugs, can provide important information for setting good public health policies. This …

Economic aspects of health education have, to date, received inadequate attention. An
economic framework for discussing and evaluating health education is offered, with health …

Through their health care utilization, smokers are generally perceived to be imposing a
financial externality on non-smokers within health insurance systems. To investigate the …