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Public Health Aspects
Of Tobacco Use

1 Katie Rodgers, "The hazards of secondhand
smoke, "Business & Health Special Report, Vol. 15,
No. 8, summer, 1997, p. 6. 2Ibid. 3Ibid. 4 JC Barlett,
et al., Medical-Care Expenditures Attributable to
Cigarette Smoking- United States, 1993," Chronic
Disease and Health Promotion: Reprints from the
MMWR 1994. 5Project ASSIST: Smokefree Indiana,
"Secondhand Smoke" Fact Sheet, 1997. 6 "State
Tobacco Control Highlights 1996," U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.

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Just The Facts

Economic Impact

Direct medical costs associated with smoking are around $50 billion a year.1

Productivity and lost earnings because of smoking-related disease and premature deaths cost an additional $50 billion a year.2

It is estimated that Medicare will spend $800 billion over the next 20 years caring for people with smoking-related illnesses.3

The most recent analysis by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in 1993 approximately $2.06 was spent on medical care attributable to smoking for each of the 24 billion packs of cigarettes sold.4

Smoking cost every man, woman, and child in Indiana $548 per year for health-related costs.5

In 1990, smoking resulted in $700 million in direct medical costs in Indiana.6