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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:622-623
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

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Commentary: Impact of smoking habit on medical care use and its costs

Dorothy P Rice

Dorothy P Rice, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, 3333 California St., Suite 340, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA. E-mail: rice@itsa.ucsf.edu

The article by Yoko et al.1 in this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology estimates the excess medical care costs of smokers aged >=45 years in Japan. The authors found that more than half (54.9%) of the men were current smokers and per capita medical costs for males was 11% higher than for never smokers. They conclude that 3.8% of total medical costs was attributable to smoking. The authors recognize that this proportion is low compared with that for the US, where the prevalence of smoking among adults . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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