{"id":1343,"date":"2002-04-15T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2002-04-15T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2009-03-22T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T18:10:07","slug":"smokings-economic-losses-put-at-700-a-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/smokings-economic-losses-put-at-700-a-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokings Economic losses Put at $7.00 a Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"bullets\">\n<li><strong>4\/15\/2002<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Atlanta<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>AP<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States costs the nation $7 in medical care and lost productivity, the government said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta put the nation&#8217;s total cost of smoking at $3,391 a year for every smoker, or #157.7 billion. Health experts had previously estimated $96 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Americans buy about 22 billion packs of cigarettes annually. The CDC study is the first to establish a per-pack cost to the nation. The agency estimated the nation&#8217;s smoking-related medical costs at $3.45 per pack, and said job productivity lost because of premature death from smoking amounted to $3.73 per pack, for a total of $7.18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a big difference in the cost to society and what society is getting back in tax,&#8221; said the CDC&#8217;s Dr. Terry Pechacek. &#8220;We believe society is bearing a burden for the individual behavioral choices of the smokers.&#8221; The CDC said is analyzed expenses, both personal and for the health-care industry, and used national medical surveys to calculate the costs to the nation. The agency also reported that smoking results in about 440,000 deaths a year in the United States, up from the government&#8217;s previous figure of 430,000, established in the early 1990&#8217;s. The new study was conducted from 1995 to 1999.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for tobacco giant Brown &amp; Williamson objected that the study presents the figures in a vacuum, without comparing smoking to the financial burdens other people-nonsmokers with diabetes, for example-place on society. &#8220;What does that number mean?&#8221; spokesman Mark Smith said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean anything. It&#8217;s bordering on meaningless.&#8221; Representatives from the nation&#8217;s two other leading tobacco companies-Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds-did not immediately return calls for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\/15\/2002 Atlanta AP Each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States costs the nation $7 in medical care and lost productivity, the government said Thursday. The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta put the nation&#8217;s total cost of smoking at $3,391 a year for every smoker, or #157.7 billion. Health experts had previously estimated $96 billion. Americans buy about 22 billion packs of cigarettes annually. The CDC study is the first to establish a per-pack cost to the nation. The agency estimated the nation&#8217;s smoking-related medical costs at $3.45 per pack, and said job productivity lost because of premature death from smoking amounted to $3.73 per pack, for a total of $7.18. &#8220;There&#8217;s a big difference in the cost to society and what society is getting back in tax,&#8221; said the CDC&#8217;s Dr. Terry Pechacek. &#8220;We believe society is bearing a burden for the individual behavioral choices of the smokers.&#8221; The CDC said is analyzed expenses, both personal and for the health-care industry, and used national medical surveys to calculate the costs to the nation. The agency also reported that smoking results in about 440,000 deaths a year in the United States, up from the government&#8217;s previous figure of 430,000, established in the early 1990&#8217;s. The new study was conducted from 1995 to 1999. A spokesman for tobacco giant Brown &amp; Williamson objected that the study presents the figures in a vacuum, without comparing smoking to the financial burdens other people-nonsmokers with diabetes, for  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[787],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oral-cancer-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}