This paper provides new national and state estimates of the health and economic burden of smoking using an updated version of the Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Morbidity, and Economic Costs (SAMMEC) software, and the new Maternal and Child Health (MCH) SAMMEC software. The SAMMEC software has been used to generate the widely-quoted figures of 430,000 annual deaths from smoking, and nearly $100 billion in associated direct health care expenditures and indirect productivity costs. The updated Adult SAMMEC software incorporates recent scientific evidence on smoking-related diseases, relative risks of death, smoking prevalence, and estimates of smoking-attributable direct and indirect costs. The new MCH SAMMEC software provides estimates of perinatal deaths and associated direct health care costs. The estimates presented in this paper represent the annual average smoking-attributable deaths and costs for the five-year period 1995-99. In addition to the estimates, the information and methods used in each software product will be discussed. Taken together, the models provide more complete estimates of the health and economic burden of smoking to the nation and individual states than were previously available.
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Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the health and economic consequences of tobacco use to the nationa and individual states. 2. familiarity with CDC's methods of estimating smoking-attributable mortality, and the economic costs of smoking-attributable diseases and deaths. 3. Distinguish between Adult SAMMEC and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) SAMMEC software products and methodologies.
Keywords: Smoking, Evaluation
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's SAMMEC software
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