Smoking costs nation $92 billion in lost productivity, CDC warns.Smoking cost the nation about $92 billion in the form of lost productivity in 1997-2001, up about $10 billion from the annual mortality related productivity losses for the years 1995-1999, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. . The new lost productivity estimate when combined with smoking-related health-care costs, which was reported at $75.5 billion in 1998, exceeds $167 billion per year in the United States. The report also finds that during 1997-2001 an estimated 438,000 premature deaths occur each year as a result of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke sec·ond·hand smoke n. Cigarette, cigar, or pipe smoke that is inhaled unintentionally by nonsmokers and may be injurious to their health if inhaled regularly over a long period. Also called passive smoke. . In comparison, approximately 440,000 smoking-related deaths were estimated to have occurred annually from 1995-1999. "Cigarette smoking continues to impose substantial health and financial costs on individuals and society," said CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation Director Dr. Julie Gerberding. "We've made good progress in reducing the number of people who smoke, but we have much more work to do. If we want to significantly reduce the toll in this decade, we must provide the 32 million smokers who say they want to quit with the tools and support to do so successfully." This latest study updates the number of deaths due to smoking during 1997-2001, specifically updating the 1995-1999 average estimates previously released. It also reports productivity losses from deaths and finds that smoking causes 3.3 million years of potential life lost years of potential life lost Public health A measure of the impact of premature mortality on a population, calculated as the sum of the differences between a predetermined minimum or desired life span usually set at 65 in calculations and the age of death for for men and 2.2 million years for women. Smoking, on average, reduces adult life expectancy Life Expectancy 1. The age until which a person is expected to live. 2. The remaining number of years an individual is expected to live, based on IRS issued life expectancy tables. by approximately 14 years. "Despite the slow steady declines in prevalence in the United States, cigarette smoking still causes hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths each year," said Dr. Corinne Husten, acting director, CDC Office on Smoking and Health. "It's in everyone's best interest to prevent and reduce tobacco use. People will have longer, healthier lives, and there will be fewer smoking-related costs." For more information about tobacco use and smoking cessation smoking cessation Public health Temporary or permanent halting of habitual cigarette smoking; withdrawal therapies–eg, hypnosis, psychotherapy, group counseling, exposing smokers to Pts with terminal lung CA and nicotine chewing gum are often ineffective. , visit the Office on Smoking and Health Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco. |
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