Medical-care expenditures attributable to cigarette smoking during pregnancy - United States, 1995

Article Abstract:

Smoking during pregnancy appears to increase health care expenditures for complicated deliveries. Researchers reached this conclusion after analyzing data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditures Survey, which questioned about 35,000 Americans. The incidence of miscarriage or stillbirth was similar in smokers and non-smokers as were health care expenditures for uncomplicated deliveries. However, smokers who had complicated deliveries used about 66% more health care resources than non-smokers. When the data were adjusted for 1995, expenditures related to smoking totaled $1 billion to $2 billion depending on how many pregnant women smoked.

Analysis, Pregnant women, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Childbirth, Delivery (Childbirth)

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Costs of Smoking Among Active Duty US Air Force Personnel--United States, 1997

Article Abstract:

Smoking among armed forces personnel has a substantial economic impact. In 1997, about one-fourth of male and female active duty Air Force (ADAF) personnel were smokers. A study of 5,164 ADAF personnel found that smoking costs the US Air Force approximately $107.2 million per year: $20 million in medical-care expenditures and $87 million from lost productivity. In 1995, the Department of Defense estimated that smoking among all U.S. military personnel cost $930 million: $584 million in annual health care expenditures and $346 million in lost productivity.

Soldiers

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Response to Increases in Cigarette Prices by Race/Ethnicity, Income, and Age Groups--United States, 1976-1993

Article Abstract:

Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that young people, minorities, and those with low incomes are likely to smoke less if the price of cigarettes increases. Analysis of NHIS data from 1976 to 1993 show that a 50% price increase would cause a 12.5% reduction in total U.S. cigarette consumption, or approximately 60 billion fewer cigarettes per year. Although all age groups were responsive to price changes, younger smokers were more likely to change than older smokers, as were blacks, Hispanics and those with low incomes.

Prices and rates, Surveys, Smoking and youth, Youth smoking, Cigarettes

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