Health
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- The Health Care Costs of Smoking
- Economic analysis concludes cigarettes and other tobacco products represent about 10% of all health care costs in America.
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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 spouses, children, grandchildren, and the tax base.
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- Young Healthy Smokers Take Significantly More Days Off Work
- Research that followed over 80,000 employees for over 2 years finds smoking has significant costs for employers, even among younger workers.
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- Secondhand 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. (August 17, 2005)
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- $72.7 Billion: Smoking's Annual Health Care Cost
- 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. (September 16, 1998)
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- Cost of Tobacco-Related Disability Among U.S. Veterans
- Economic report estimates the cost of tobacco-caused disease among currently living U.S. veterans. [PDF] (September 15, 1997)
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- Kentucky Legislators' Views on Tobacco Policy
- Research into policymakers' views in a tobacco state performs a survey of 116 Kentucky legislators. Surprisingly, they were highly supportive of reducing the state's dependence on tobacco and more supportive of tobacco control policies than expected.
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- Concentration of Power
- Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.
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- Failed Promises of the Cigarette Industry and its Effect on Consumer Misperceptions about the Health Risks of Smoking
- Research reviews the public statements made by the tobacco industry and private statements inside the industry, assesses the extent to which cigarette companies fulfilled their 1954 promises, and evaluates the effect on consumer knowledge of the product.
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- GASP of Colorado: Tobacco Industry and Front Groups
- Papers on Philip Morris's accommodation/pre-emption program; Philip Morris media plan for Colorado; RJR's field force; smoker's groups bankrolled by the tobacco industry.
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- Health Warning: Low Tar Cigarettes are a Deliberate Con
- From Action on Smoking and Health in the UK. Covers emissions, smoker compensation, differences between expectations and reality for low tar cigarettes, and what the industry knew and how it behaved.
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- Industry Activity around the World
- Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
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- Trinkets and Trash
- Gallery of cigarette ads and tobacco industry promotional items: t-shirts, caps, radios, and a wide variety of other items designed by tobacco companies to sell cigarettes, spit tobacco, and cigars.
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- Tobacco's Smokescreens Revealed
- Recent research identifies tobacco industry strategies to fight, delay, and water down health warnings, to prevent regulation of the tobacco industry, to circumvent advertising restrictions, and to give tobacco giant Philip Morris more lobbying power. (December 06, 2003)
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- Smoking, The African American Community and The Proposed National Settlement
- Scholarly article analyzes how well the proposed June 20 1997 federal tobacco deal addresses the impact of tobacco on the African American community; internal tobacco industry documents are cited on how the industry targetted African Americans.