Titlebook: Valuing the Cost of Smoking; Assessment Methods, Claude Jeanrenaud,Nils Soguel Book 1999 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999 Opt

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0926-972X countries, and is dramatically increasing in the developing world. Smoking is risky and there is ample scientific evidence to support this statement. We know that smoking is a major cause of disease and premature death, in view of the fact that 3 million people die each year worldwide as a result of

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Introductioneduces life expectancy vastly. Epidemiological research shows that people who have died from a smoking-related disease would, on average, have lived for an additional 15 years had they not been smokers (Warner, 1987).

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How Effective are Taxes in Reducing Tobacco Consumption?.” Related to this is the use of tobacco taxes as a public health policy. The effectiveness of taxes for each these purposes depends on information concerning the impact of tobacco taxes on tobacco use. This chapter reviews this evidence.

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Contingent Valuation or QALYsponsibility for. The basic idea behind quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) is to let the individual indicate the ‘relative’ . he derives from a particular health profile. Typically, the utility derived from full health is set equal to unity and the utility derived from the worst possible health stat

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When Does Non-Smoking Save Health Care Money? The Many Answers to a Simple Question1economics of health care the question arises time and again: which costs more to the health care sector, smokers who tend to die early from expensive diseases, or nonsmokers who can accumulate more health care costs because they live longer?