Statistics About Tobacco Use

• Tobacco use costs US companies $157 billion each year in direct medical costs and lost productivity

• Hospitalizations for smokers who quit declines within a year

• Smokers are admitted to the hospital almost twice as often

• Pregnant smokers’ medical costs are 66% higher

• Total Excess Cost Per Smoker Per Year:
  

• 	Smoking breaks	$1,882
  	Missed workdays due to sickness	341
  	Excess medical expenditures	1,623
  	Mortality-related lost productivity	1,760
  	TOTAL	$5,606

• 23% of adults in the US continue to smoke

• 70% of those tobacco users WANT to quit

• 42% of those tobacco users who WANT to quit TRY to quit each year

Source: Free & Clear, 2005 – www.freeclear.com

• Cigarette smoking is now responsible for twenty percent of all deaths in the United States annually.

• Cigarette smoking accounts for 8 percent of all health-care spending in the United States.

• Cigarette smokers represent 18 percent of the entire U.S. population.

• Smokers tend to incur more medical costs, to see physicians more often in the outpatient setting, and to be admitted to the hospital more often and for longer periods than non-smokers.

• Health care costs for smokers are 21% higher and drug costs are 28% higher than non-smokers.

• Smokers are more likely to be absent from work than nonsmokers, and their illnesses last longer.

• The CDC calculated the cost to the nation in terms of lost worker productivity and health care costs for a pack of cigarettes. For every pack sold in the US it costs $3.45 per pack in health care costs and $3.73 per pack in terms of lost productivity putting the total at $7.18.

Source: Centers for Disease Control; www.cdc.gov/