According to the U.S. Pulmonary Association, nearly 500,000 people have died in the United States every year, and the main causes of lung cancer are to use tobacco.
Even if you are not smoking, if you have a smoker around you, it is not safe due to its harmful effects. Since 1964, more than 20 million lives have been lost in the United States due to smoking -related illnesses, of which 2.5 million are non -smokers and have developed illness only by exposure to passive smoking.
The impact on medical care will be further worsened by the economic and social cost of smoking in each state. According to a recent WALLETHUB survey, smoking has caused more than $ 600 billion in the United States every year, which includes medical expenses and productivity.
Wallethub researchers have a potential financial loss, including the lifetime costs, annual costs, medical expenses, income losses, and other costs, which are brought about by smoking and exposure to sideline smoke. Is analyzed.
“Smoking has decreased significantly in the last few decades in the United States, but nearly 50 million people are still using tobacco products,” said Wallet Hub’s report. “If you buy cigarettes for a long time after you have grown up, it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the numbers are insignificant than the hidden cost of smoking. Smokers have invested money on cigarettes for their lives. If you do, you will lose millions of dollars.
WALLETHUB investigates an adult habit of smoking one box of cigarettes a day from the age of 21, which can legally purchase tobacco products in the United States, and has a 48 -year life in consideration of 69 years old. I covered it. That smokers die.
Self -pay cost
In order to determine the amount of self -pay per person per person, we calculated the average cost of one tobacco in each state, and the number was 48 years of day. For the annual cost, the average cost was multiplied by 365 days.
Financial opportunity fee
In order to determine the cost of financial opportunities per capita, we calculated the amount of profits obtained by investing the money in the same period during the same period. In order to reflect the return of the current value, we used the same period of inflation from the past average market rate of S & P 500 for the same period.
Medical expenses per smoker
Direct medical expenses for treating healthy complications related to smoking are one of the biggest fiscal expenditures caused by smoking. In order to calculate related medical expenses, the disease management prevention center was obtained from the state -level data, that is, the annual medical expenses caused by smoking, and divided the amount by the total number of adult smokers in each state.
Revenue loss per smoker
In past studies, it has shown that smoking may lead to income loss due to a decrease in productivity due to absence from work, prejudice in the workplace, or smoking due to smoking. This may cause wage gap between smokers and non -smokers. In order to express the negative relationship between income and smoking, it is assumed that the average median household income will decrease by 18%. A recent survey of the National Longitudinal Survey has reached this number after finding that smokers’ income was 18.1% lower than non -smokers.
Other expenses per smoker
According to the American Independent Insurance Agency and Brokers, non -smokers usually have 5 to 15 % housing owner insurance credit. In consideration of this fact, in order to express the penalties for smokers, the average housing owner insurance premiums in each state have increased by 11.1 % (that is, 10 % credit or two percentage). did.
Next, we considered the cost of passive smoking victims. In order to calculate these costs, we used a non -smoker in New York as a substitute. Next, we multiplied the numbers of non -smokers in each state to seek the total cost of passive smoking at the state level. Finally, the total of the results was divided by the number of smokers in each state. This approach premise in a complete society that smokers also pay the costs related to harmful smoke that cigarettes release in the air.
Calculation formula for smoking economic costs
Smoking economic cost = self -pay cost + economic opportunity cost + related medical expenses + smoking -related issues + increase in insurance premiums for housing owners + passive smoking exposure costs.
