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Reaping benefits: investment in tobacco control pay off
In 1990, BAT and Philip Morris devised a plan to derail the 8th WCTOH. The plan "was to promote the idea that health spending in Latin America should not go to tobacco control initiatives, but rather to other pressing public health issues such as children's immunization programmes". Recently, John Luik went on the attack, stating that If "Bloomberg and Gates really wanted to prevent youth smoking in the developing world, they would give not a penny to the anti-tobacco activists or the public health establishments committed to traditional tobacco control, but instead take all that $500 million and spend it on poverty alleviation and improving education."
Studies show that investments in tobacco control pay dividends. If they didn't, would the tobacco industry and its apologists waste their time slinging mud at these investments?
Additional Information from the Tobacco Control Reference Catalogue
Australia
Cost-effectiveness of the Australian National Tobacco Campaign
Hurley, Susan F.; Matthews, Jane P.
Tobacco Control. 17(6): 379-384. Decmeber 2008. [Article]
Assessed the cost-effectiveness of Phase One of the Australian National Tobacco Campaign (NTC), held from June to November 2007. Outcomes included gains in QALY's and health care cost savings consequential to the reduced incidence of the four most common smoking-associated diseases: myocardial infarction, stroke, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The social costs of smoking in Western Australia in 2004/05 and the social benefits of public policy measures to reduce smoking prevalence
Collins, David John; Lapsley, Helen M.; Cancer Council Western Australia.
Perth, W.A.: Cancer Council Western Australia, September 2008. [Report]
Table of contents : Introduction - Changes affecting the calculation of the social costs of tobacco - Interpreting the social estimates - Some disaggregated costs - Aggregate results - Comparison with previous Western Australian social cost estimates - The economic benefits of reduced smoking prevalence in Western Australia - Conclusions - Appendices - Bibliography - Data sources.
California
Effect of the California tobacco control program on personal health care expenditures
Lightwood, James M.; Dinno, Alexis; Glantz, Stanton A.
PloS Medicine. 5(8): e178. 2008. [Article]
Findings reveal that between 1989 and 2004, the California tobacco control program saved $86 billion on health care costs compared with the amount that would have been spent without the program. An effective tobacco control program will decrease smoking as well as health care costs.
Canada
The costs of substance abuse in Canada 2002 : highlights
Rehm, J.; Baliunas, D.; Brochu, S.; Fischer, B.; Gnam, W.; Patra, J.; Popova, S.; Sarnocinska-Hart, A.; Taylor, B.
Ottawa: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA), March 2006. [Report]
The social cost of tobacco use in 2002 was assessed at $17 billion. Tobacco use also accounted for 37, 209 deaths. Moreover, 515, 607 potential years of life were lost; over 2 million days were spent in acute hospital care; productivity losses from illness and death accumulated to $12.5 billion; and direct health care costs were $4.4 billion.
Mise à jour des coûts du tabagisme pour la société
Groupe d'Analyse.
Montréal: Groupe d'Analyse, [2003]. [Report]
(Available in French only.) This French document outlines the costs of cigarette smoking. It examines such costs as: healthcare; employer costs; research funding and prevention programs; fires due to smoking; premature deaths of smokers; and costs of secondhand smoke. In 2002, the estimated cost of tobacco use in Canada was $15.8 million.