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RESEARCH ARTICLE

The social costs of smoking in Australia

David Collins and Helen Lapsley

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 15(6) 92 - 94
Published: 2004

Abstract

The implementation of effective policies that reduce the prevalence of smoking has substantial economic benefit for Australia. This article describes how methods for estimating the social costs of smoking were developed and how these methods have been applied to the Australian population and to measure the effect of interventions to reduce smoking prevalence in some states.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB04021

© NSW Department of Health 2004

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