Screen LibraryThe price of smoking
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 313 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0262195100 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D771 |
| CLC: | D771.288 |
| Call Number: | D771.288/P946 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index. 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. |