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The issue of the social costs of smoking is one in which governments and public health community groups show a keen interest. Estimates of private and/or external costs of smoking have been produced for several advanced countries including Australia (Collins and Lapsley, 1996), Canada (Single et al, 1996, Finland (Pekurinen, 1992), New Zealand (Easton, 1997), the United States (Schultz, Novotny and Rice, 1990) and now Switzerland. Such studies tend to be very influential in attracting both private and public support for anti-smoking policies. However, the methodologies used in such cost research studies, and the interpretation of their results, are open to considerable discussion. In spite of this fact, the public interpretation of these results tends to be largely uncritical.
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Collins, D., Lapsley, H. (1999). Human Capital and Demographic Approaches to Estimating the External Costs of Smoking. In: Jeanrenaud, C., Soguel, N. (eds) Valuing the Cost of Smoking. Studies in Risk and Uncertainty, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4415-5_3
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