From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries.

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.

Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to recent research.

Costs due to increased absenteeism, productivity, insurance; summary of research.

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.

Can select a state and find out the smoking-attributable expenditures for that state. Breaks the cost down by ambulatory, hospital, nursing home, drug, and other expenses.

Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes.

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.

Article examines the literature available, the estimates arrived at, their validity, and their implications.

1993 report breaks down costs by state.

Estimates cost of Social Security payments made for youths who became motherless or fatherless due to tobacco use.

Collection of evidence introduced into trial on the costs tobacco products place on the smoker, the family, government, and society; most documents in PDF format.

Extensive report adds up the cost to $15.8 billion, breaks it down by type of cost, disease, gender, county, and includes estimates for lost productivity, secondhand smoke. PDF format.

Research concludes that "reducing or eliminating tobacco product spending in Michigan will increase employment in the state, as well as health."

Research concludes "the cumulative impact of excess medical care required by smokers at all ages while alive outweighs shorter life expectancy, and smokers incur higher expenditures for medical care over their lifetimes than never-smokers".

The European Journal of Public Health: scientific article.

Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs.

Report estimates the medical costs of tobacco in Central Sydney, Australia.

University of California health care economists created the first detailed picture of the impact of cigarette smoking on Medicaid costs in all 50 states.

Research measures costs to employers of smoking in the workplace in Scotland.

Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans.

Results of a study on the social costs of drug use in Australia.

Abstract of recent research estimates percentage of total health care costs attributable to smoking.

Includes summary of the cost of smoking in the UK.

What are the costs? Who pays? And are anti-tobacco policies cost-effective? Short paper considers these questions.

Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America.

News story itemizes some of the costs of smoking.

The total cost of caring for people with health problems caused by cigarette smoking is about $72.7 billion per year, according to health economists at the University of California. "You expect a figure of this magnitude for the impact of smoking on health care, when you consider that one in five deaths per year is due to cigarette use," said the study's author. Smoking accounted for 11.8 percent of all medical expenditures in the U.S.

Analysis of Philip Morris study on economics of tobacco use.

Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.

Research that followed over 80,000 employees for over 2 years finds smoking has significant costs for employers, even among younger workers.

Very short factsheet, but all sources cited.

Cost of tobacco in Canada from worker absenteeism, fires, and lost income due to premarure death.

Short factsheet measures the UK cost of tobacco products in different ways.

European research measures the total lifetime costs of smoking.

The cost of smoking in terms of healthcare at one Irish hostpial is estimated: the hospital's budget was about £177 million per year, and about half the 500 to 600 patients were there because 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 spouses, children, grandchildren, and the tax base.

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.

Report on 1997 Medicare and overall healthcare costs in the U.S. due to cigarette smoking, based on estimates of 1993 spending.

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 companies; policy lessions; conclusions.

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.

Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.

Breaks down costs to employers of smoking and secondhand smoke.

Canadian analysis estimates smoking adds about $2000 per year per employee.

Presentation of econometric models and resulting estimates of cost.

Complete report available online.

Identifies the medical care costs attributable to cigarette smoking for the United States for 1993; describes in detail the collection of econometric models that are used to calculate these costs.

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

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.