Table of Contents:
  • Tabulating the cost of smoking
  • Approaches for assessing the cost of smoking
  • What we know and don't know about the cost of smoking
  • Effects of smoking on mortality
  • How much does smoking increase outlays for personal health care?
  • Effects of smoking on social security
  • Private pensions: do the cross-subsidies mirror those for social security?
  • Do nonsmokers cross-subsidize smokers in the market for life insurance?
  • Effects of smoking on morbidity, disability, and work loss
  • Health effects of smoking on others
  • Summing up.