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The Price of Smoking »

Authors: Frank A. Sloan, Jan Ostermann, Gabriel Picone, Christopher Conover, Donald H. Taylor, Jr. Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780262693455, ISBN-10: 0262693453
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Frank A. Sloan

Frank A. Sloan is J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University. He is the coauthor of The Price of Smoking (MIT Press, 2004) and author or editor of many other books on health economics.

Jan Ostermann is a Research Associate at the Center for Health Policy, Law, and Management at Duke University.

Christopher Conover is Assistant Research Professor of Public Policy Studies and Director of the Health Policy Certificate Program at Duke University.

Donald H. Taylor, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Community and Family Medicine at Duke University.

Gabriel Picone is Associate Professor of Economics at the College of Business Administration at the University of South Florida.

Book Synopsis

Quantification of the costs of smoking for the individual smoker and of the costs imposed on family and society.

1	Tabulating the cost of smoking	1
2	Approaches for assessing the cost of smoking	23
3	What we know and don't know about the cost of smoking	43
4	Effects of smoking on mortality	77
5	How much does smoking increase outlays for personal health care?	99
6	Effects of smoking on social security	133
7	Private pensions : do the cross-subsidies mirror those for social security?	163
8	Do nonsmokers cross-subsidize smokers in the market for life insurance?	181
9	Effects of smoking on morbidity, disability, and work loss	197
10	Health effects of smoking on others	219
11	Summing up	245