Nutritional Biochemistry of the Vitamins or The Price of Smoking

Nutritional Biochemistry of the Vitamins

Author: David A Bender

Vitamins are a chemically disparate group of compounds essential for the normal functioning of the body and maintenance of metabolic integrity. In exploring the known biochemical functions of the vitamins, this book considers the effects of deficiency or excess and the scientific basis for intakes for the prevention of deficiency and promotion of optimum health. This compact and authoritative reference will be of value to students as well as specialists in nutritional biochemistry, and those concerned with vitamin nutrition, deficiency and metabolism.First Edition Hb (1992): 0-521-38144-4

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The Price of Smoking

Author: Frank A Sloan

What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-old male smoker the cost is $183,000. The total social cost of smoking over a lifetime--including both private costs to the smoker and costs imposed on others (including second-hand smoke and costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)--comes to $106,000 for a woman and $220,00 for a man. The cost per pack over a lifetime of smoking: almost $40.00. The first study to quantify the cost of smoking in this way, or in such depth, this accessible book not only adds a weapon to the arsenal of antismoking messages but also provides a framework for assessment that can be applied to other health behaviors. The findings on the effects of smoking on Medicare and Medicaid will be surprising and perhaps controversial, for the authors estimate the costs to be much lower than the damage awards being paid to 46 states as a result of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.

Table of Contents:

1	Tabulating the cost of smoking	1
2	Approaches for assessing the cost of smoking	23
3	What we know and don't know about the cost of smoking	43
4	Effects of smoking on mortality	77
5	How much does smoking increase outlays for personal health care?	99
6	Effects of smoking on social security	133
7	Private pensions : do the cross-subsidies mirror those for social security?	163
8	Do nonsmokers cross-subsidize smokers in the market for life insurance?	181
9	Effects of smoking on morbidity, disability, and work loss	197
10	Health effects of smoking on others	219
11	Summing up	245