Ecigs increased US health costs by $15.1 billion in2018 according to initial
Ecigs increased US health costs by $15.1 billion in 2018 according to initial, but only partial costing calculationsWang Y, Sung HY, Lightwood J, Yao T, Max WB. Healthcare utilization and expenditures attributable to current e-cigarette use among US adults. Tob Control. 2023 Nov;32(6):723-728. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057058. Epub 2022 May 23. PMID: 35606163.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35606163/
Comment: Governments sometimes look to tobacco for revenue, but other crops are more profitable and “current levels of tobacco taxes fall short of recovering the true cost of tobacco use to national economies. In most LMICs, the collection from tobacco taxes is below 1% of gross domestic product (GDP). The total global economic cost of smoking is estimated at around $US 1.85 trillion, or around 1.8% of global GDP.” Evidence in this latest study shows that e-cigarette revenues and taxes are similarly unlikely to cover the costs of losses from health expenditure and lost productivity, especially since e-cigarette use affects youth disease, disability and death, not yet counted in studies of adult costing. Stephen Hamann
From: Quote from: https://tobacconomics.org/files/research/523/UIC_Economic-Costs-of-Tobacco-Use-Policy-Brief_v1.3.pdf
Stephen Hamann
