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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961848703321

Titolo

The price of smoking / / Frank A. Sloan ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612098376

9780262250566

026225056X

9781282098374

1282098373

9780262283793

0262283794

9781423796596

1423796594

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SloanFrank A

Disciplina

362.29/6

Soggetti

Smoking - United States - Costs

Smoking - Health aspects - United States

Smoking - Economic aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Tabulating the Cost of Smoking; 2 Approaches for Assessing the Cost of Smoking; 3 What We Know and Don't Know about the Cost of Smoking; 4 Effects of Smoking on Mortality; 5 How Much Does Smoking Increase Outlays for Personal Health Care?; 6 Effects of Smoking on Social Security; 7 Private Pensions: Do the Cross-Subsidies Mirror Those for Social Security?; 8 Do Nonsmokers Cross- Subsidize Smokers in the Market for Life Insurance?; 9 Effects of Smoking on Morbidity, Disability, and Work Loss; 10 Health Effects of Smoking on Others; 11 Summing Up; Notes; References

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