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Smokers, eaters and drinkers are endlessly accused of being a “cost to society”, and their “cost” is computed by “experts” who manage to shell out ever-growing numbers. Aside from the fact that those categories of people ARE society, those “costs” stem from the same cheating mentality that has nothing to do with science and facts and everything to do with making the figures square with the politics. The contribution of smokers through tobacco taxes, for example, is routinely ignored; but that is certainly not the only thing that is ignored. As it is so often the case with those who accuse, the accuser is guilty. In reality non smokers “cost to society” far more than smokers – and that is one of the very reasons why the medicare system of the West are collapsing. This compendium of studies and articles explains why non-smokers are a serious burden to society.

CRS Report - The Proposed Tobacco Settlement: Who Pays for the Health Costs of Smoking? (updated April 30, 1998) | Jane G. Gravelle
Article Published: 1998/04/30

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Type: Official report
Published By: Congressional Research Service - The Library of Congress

Keywords: CRS, Congress, cost, settlement

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CRS Report - Cigarette Taxes to Fund Health Care Reform: An Economic Analysis | Jane G. Gravelle, Dannis Zimmerman
Article Published: 1994/03/08

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Type: Official report
Published By: Congressional Research Service - The Library of Congress

Keywords: CRS, Congress, cost, tax, reform, health care, Gravelle, Zimmerman

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Lifetime medical costs of obesity: prevention no cure for increasing health expenditure | Pieter H. M. van Baal, Johan J. Polder, G. Ardine de Wit, Rudolf T. Hoogenveen, Talitha L. Feenstra, Hendriek C. Boshuizen, Peter M. Engelfriet, Werner B. F. Brouwer
Article Published: 2008

Details:
Type: Economic
Funding Source: The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports
Published By: Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Keywords: obesity, smoking, cost, society, van Baal, Polder, de Wit, Hoogenveen, Feenstra, Boshuizen, Engelfriet, Brouwer

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Prognostic factors for respiratory sickness absence and return to work among blue collar workers and office personnel | E C Alexopoulos, A Burdorf
Article Published: 2001

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Type: Longitudinal
Published By: Occup Environ Med 2001;58:246–252

Keywords: respiratory, sickness, absence, work

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Smoked out: antitobacco activism at the World Bank | Richard Tren, Hugh High, Deepak Lal
Article Published: 1999

Details:
Type: Review
Published By: Institute of Economic Affairs

Keywords: Tren, High, Lal, cost, World Bank, antitobacco

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The Health Care Costs of Smoking | Jan J. Barendregt, M.A., Luc Bonneux, M.D., Paul J. Van Der Maas, Ph.D.
Article Published: 1997

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Type: Meta-Analysis
Published By: N Engl J Med1997;337:1052-7

Keywords: Barendregt, Bonneux, Van Der Maas, cost, cessation

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A closer look at statistics on smoking and health | Prof. Peter Finch
Article Published: circa 1992

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Keywords: Peter, Finch, statistics, mortality, cost

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Smokers' Burden on Society: Myth and Reality in Canada | André Raynauld, Jean-Pierre Vidal
Article Published: 1986

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Keywords: André, Raynauld, Jean-Pierre, Vidal, smokers, nonsmokers, cost, society

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