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 …

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 …

Philosophically, smoking has long been regarded as a paradigmatically privateregarding
vice, best treated as such. It is a vice, to be sure: a dirty, disgusting habit, in the view of …

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 …

Plusieurs auteurs soutiennent que les fumeurs sont à la source de coûts considérables pour
la société: frais d'hospitalisation et de services médicaux et production perdue par le décès …

The Ethics of Public Health, Volumes I and II Page 1 Edited by Michael Freeman The Ethics of
Public Health, Volumes I and II The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law THE …

Cigarette taxation is analyzed from an allocative efficiency perspective. The analysis focuses
on distortions created by private and public health insurance. Traditional reimbursement …