| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 35 Economic issues |
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| "On average, at any given age, smokers incur higher medical costs than nonsmokers. |
| However, nonsmokers live longer and therefore continue to incur medical costs over |
| more years... The most recent research is the incidence-based study by Hodgson |
| (Milbank Quarterly, Vol 70, 1992, pp. 81-125) who found that lifetime medical costs for |
| male smokers were 32 percent higher than for male neversmokers and lifetime |
| medical costs for female smokers were 24 percent higher than for female |
| neversmokers. Hodgson determined that the present value of the lifetime excess |
| costs were about $9,400 in 1990 dollars... Adjusting by the consumer price index |
| (CPI) for medical care raises the present value of Hodgson's excess medical cost per |
| new smoker to $10,590 in 1994 dollars. Thus, those 1,000,000 young people under |
| the age of 18 who currently become new smokers each year are responsible for |
| excess lifetime medical costs measured at a present value of $10.6 billion (1,000,000 |
| x $10,590). Since FDA projects that the proposed regulation would prevent 250,000 |
| of these individuals from smoking as adults, the medical cost saving attributable to the |
| proposed regulation is estimated at $2.6 billion per year." |
| Federal Register, August 11, 1995, p. 41364 |
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