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Smoking tobacco is the risk factor responsible for the greatest burden of disease in Australia at around 8% of the total burden. The resources in this section provide information on the costs of smoking to society.
Resources
Site: Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing
Resource: Counting the cost: estimates of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia in 1998-9 (PDF 332 kb).
David Collins and Helen Lapsley
Site: World Health Organization
Resource: The Tobacco Atlas (2nd edition) - Costs to the Economy
[PDF 552 kb]
Health care costs attributable to tobacco, working days lost due to tobacco, costs of fires and litter collection, tobacco industry quotes.
Site: Department of Human Services, Victoria
Resource:
Counting the costs of tobacco and the benefits of reducing smoking prevalence in Victoria (PDF 223kb).
The objectives of the research were to:
- Estimate the social costs of smoking for Victoria for the 1998/99 financial year;
- Estimate the benefits in terms of a reduction in the social costs of smoking which are likely to arise from a reduction in smoking prevalence in Victoria from 17% (1) to 12%;
- Estimate the social benefits to be gained from effective anti-smoking programs.
Site: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Resource: The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003
Begg S, Vos T, Barker B, Stevenson C, Stanley L, & Lopez A.
The report measures mortality, disability, impairment, illness and injury arising from 176 diseases, injuries and risk factors using a common metric, the disability-adjusted life year or DALY.
