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  • Title: The economic costs of the health effects of smoking, 1984.
    Author: Rice DP, Hodgson TA, Sinsheimer P, Browner W, Kopstein AN.
    Journal: Milbank Q; 1986; 64(4):489-547. PubMed ID: 3102916.
    Abstract:
    The impact of cigarette smoking on morbidity and mortality in the United States is well known. Economic consequences of these health effects--expenditures for medical care and the value of productive output lost--have been estimated in many ways. This original prevalence-based analysis of attributable risks indicates a staggering $54 billion cost to the nation. Concern over such misallocation of resources to harmful uses is demonstrably justified.
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