Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-06-24T12:36:51 RDF description of Smoking-attributable medical expenditures by age, sex, and smoking status estimated using a relative risk approach - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn548 Smoking 25600 77 Smoking-attributable medical expenditures by age, sex, and smoking status estimated using a relative risk approach Risk Factors <p>OBJECTIVE: To accurately assess the benefits of tobacco control interventions and to better inform decision makers, knowledge of medical expenditures by age, gender, and smoking status is essential. METHOD: We propose an approach to distribute smoking-attributable expenditures by age, gender, and cigarette smoking status to reflect the known risks of smoking. We distribute hospitalization days for smoking-attributable diseases according to relative risks of smoking-attributable mortality, and use the method to determine national estimates of smoking-attributable expenditures by age, sex, and cigarette smoking status. Sensitivity analyses explored assumptions of the method. RESULTS: Both current and former smokers ages 75 and over have about 12 times the smoking-attributable expenditures of their current and former smoker counterparts 35-54years of age. Within each age group, the expenditures of formers smokers are about 70% lower than current smokers. In sensitivity analysis, these results were not robust to large changes to the relative risks of smoking-attributable mortality which were used in the calculations. CONCLUSION: Sex- and age-group-specific smoking expenditures reflect observed disease risk differences between current and former cigarette smokers and indicate that about 70% of current smokers' excess medical care costs is preventable by quitting.<p> document-rn548 Economics 15510 Smoking Cessation 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.05.019 Forecasting public 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 Preventive Medicine