The Price of Smoking - Softcover

"The health consequences of smoking boost some financial costs to society and lower others. *The Price of Smoking* uses several new data sets to document these effects, which are analyzed on a lifetime basis. These analyses allow Sloan and his collaborators to provide the most detailed estimates to date of the cost implications of smoking for different government programs."
--W. Kip Viscusi, Cogan Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School

"This book contains the most thorough examination yet of the social and economic consequences of smoking, providing evidence that will be useful to policymakers, litigators, advocates, and academics. Particularly important is the calculation of what Sloan and his colleagues call the 'quasi-external' costs - those that smokers impose on their spouses, children, and others in their household. These costs have too often been ignored or assumed away in previous economic research on the costs of smoking."
--Frank J. Chaloupka, Professor of Economics and Director of the Health Policy Center, University of Illinois at Chicago

"What is the price of smoking? The various ways that cigarettes impact the private lives of smokers and the public aspects of policy are revealed carefully and comprehensively by this team of sophisticated economists. Their results surprised me and they might surprise you."
--Steven A. Schroeder, director, Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, University of California, San Francisco, and past president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation