Annual healthcare spending attributable to cigarette smoking: an update.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fifty years after the first Surgeon General's report, tobacco use remains the nation's leading preventable cause of death and disease, despite declines in adult cigarette smoking prevalence. Smoking-attributable healthcare spending is an important part of overall smoking-attributable costs in the U.S.

Purpose

To update annual smoking-attributable healthcare spending in the U.S. and provide smoking-attributable healthcare spending estimates by payer (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance) or type of medical services.

Methods

Analyses used data from the 2006-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey linked to the 2004-2009 National Health Interview Survey. Estimates from two-part models were combined to predict the share of annual healthcare spending that c

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4603661 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature