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Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262283793
Book: The Price of Smoking
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262283793
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 November 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5530.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262283793
What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-old male smoker the cost is $183,000. The total social cost of smoking over a lifetime—including both private costs to the smoker and costs imposed on others (including second-hand smoke and costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)—comes to $106,000 for a woman and $220,000 for a man. The cost per pack over a lifetime of smoking: almost $40.00. The first study to quantify the cost of smoking in this way, or in such depth, this accessible book not only adds a weapon to the arsenal of antismoking messages but also provides a framework for assessment that can be applied to other health behaviors. The findings on the effects of smoking on Medicare and Medicaid will be surprising and perhaps controversial, for the authors estimate the costs to be much lower than the damage awards being paid to 46 states as a result of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.