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Doonan, M., "The Economics of Prescription Drug Pricing," Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, pp. 5-6 (2001). 

Schneider Institute for Health Policy at Brandeis University. Substance Abuse, The Nation s Number One Health Problem. Princeton, NJ The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2001. 

The picture is similar for men. Smokers and nonsmokers did not differ in projected death rates from diseases like colon or prostate cancer, and they did not differ in rates of death by accidents. But for death by heart attack, stroke, or lung cancer, the disparities in death rates were large and evident from age 30 to old age. The rates of death from all causes at age 30 were 0.030 for smokers and 0.013 for nonsmokers at age 45, they were 0.091 and 0.039 at age 55, 0.125 and 0.066 and at age 80,0.950, and 0.650. Statistics like these are represented in cost-of-illness studies In 1995, the health care cost to U.S. society for its citizens cigarette smoking was 80 billion (Schneider Institute for Health Policy, 2001). 

Horgan C, Skwara KC, Strickler G, Andersen L (2001) Substance abuse the nation s number one health problem. Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Brandeis University (prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), Waltham, MA... 

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