How Costly Are Smokers to Other People? Longitudinal Evidence on the Near Elderly
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Gabriel Picone
Many studies have estimated the cost of smoking. In recent years, such estimates have been widely used in litigation against the tobacco companies. Both longitudinal and cross-sectional methods have been used. On balance, the longitudinal approach, the one used in this study, is much preferable since one can account for the effects of smoking on the pool of eligibles rather than just conditioning expenditures on being eligible. We used data from four waves of the Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of smoking on use of hospital and physicians’ services and nursing home care. The analysis was limited to utilization among persons aged 51 to 67 (“near elderly” ). During this phase of the life cycle, many adverse effects of smoking, measured in terms of mortality and morbidity,
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Introduction to Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 4
- How Costly Are Smokers to Other People? Longitudinal Evidence on the Near Elderly
- The Health Care Consequences of Smoking and Its Regulation
- Public Financing and the Market for Long-Term Care
- Trends in the Use of Intensive Procedures at the End of Life
- Creating Price Indexes for Measuring Productivity in Mental Health Care
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Introduction to Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 4
- How Costly Are Smokers to Other People? Longitudinal Evidence on the Near Elderly
- The Health Care Consequences of Smoking and Its Regulation
- Public Financing and the Market for Long-Term Care
- Trends in the Use of Intensive Procedures at the End of Life
- Creating Price Indexes for Measuring Productivity in Mental Health Care
