The human and financial costs of smoking
The human and financial costs of smoking
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DOI：
10.1016/s0272-5231(05)70017-4
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发表时间：
2000-03-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Leistikow, BN
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作者：
Leistikow, BN
吸烟导致美国成年人死亡的20%和许多疾病。吸烟引起的癌症、心血管和肺部疾病的医疗保健每年花费数百亿美元。然而，这些成本可能远远超过丧亲之痛、生产力损失、疼痛和痛苦以及吸烟造成的健康问题。虽然有时比死亡成本更难精确量化，但吸烟造成的生产力损失、痛苦或家庭成本往往对吸烟者、他们的家庭和社会构成更大、更直接、更容易理解的威胁。本文总结了吸烟造成的定性和定量的人力和财政损失。卷的范围从香烟烧伤，香烟点燃火灾，以照顾垂死的吸烟者和取代他们的财政和社会贡献，他们的配偶，子女，孙子和税基。面对这样的成本，戒烟和预防服务可能具有很高的成本效益。
Smoking causes about 20% of United States adult deaths and numerous diseases. Health care for cancer, cardiovascular, and pulmonary diseases from smoking costs tens of billions of dollars per year. Yet those costs are likely far exceeded by costs from bereavement, lost productivity, pain and suffering, and health care for debilities from smoking. Though sometimes more difficult to precisely quantify than costs for fatalities, the lost productivity, suffering, or familial costs of smoking are often much larger, more immediate, and more understandable threats to smokers, their families, and society. This article summarizes qualitative and quantitative human and financial tolls from smoking. The rolls range 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. In the face of such costs, smoking cessation and prevention services are likely to be highly cost-effective.