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- Teen Substance Abuse
- Information on what substance abuse is, early detection and treatment, with emphasis on what a parent can do.
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- Cigarettes Not Only Cause More Time Off Work, But Also Lower Productivity
- Research summary. Estimates that tobacco products cost employers $47 billion dollars in 1990.
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- Jeffrey E. Harris, MIT Home page
- Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.
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- Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs
- 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.
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- The Global Impact of Tobacco
- 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.
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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.