The value of life statistics: Smoke the actual cost which loses a box of cigarettes and reach $150

The value of life statistics: Smoke the actual cost which loses a box of cigarettes and reach $150


In the street of Athens, a woman is making the craft cigarette by oneself. (materials picture)
Smoke one box according to Xinhua News Agency how much cost cigarette need, cost? Spanish researcher charge to, die behind the factor calculating, smoke one box the intersection of cost and high about 150 dollars most of cigarette early.
In Spain, a box of cigarette price of 4.2 dollars are to 5.6 dollars, actual cost is far above these. The interesting science websites of U.S.A. invoke the words report of researchers of Spain CARTAGENA institute of technology Angel and Lopez and Nicholas on the 27th, study before to reveal, smoking increases death probability, cause men to reduce longevity for 7.13 years on average, women reduce longevity for 4.5 years on average. Compared with non-smoker, the smoker will pay and die the cost early.
Nicholas and colleague introduce the value of life statistics, calculates and comes out: The cost men who smoke a box of cigarettes are about 150 dollars, 105 dollars for women.
The basis of the value of life statistics, it is the cost preventing the artificial risk from being paid and compensation that the employer undertakes the extra risk and pays for the staff. Nicholas says, one's average life statistics value is 4,070,000 dollars, and the smoker's average life statistics value is 5,290,000 dollars.
The cost is paid for itself by the smoker
In recent years, calculate and smoke the actual cost is rather popular in U.S.A., but the result obtained each has a difference. " economic magazine of the hygiene " delivers a research report before, charge to the value of life statistics, assert the cost which smoked a box of cigarettes was 222 dollars in 2006.
The intersection of state and researcher, Pennsylvania of U.S.A., calculate, pursue, give up smoking cost and income of the policy, assert the project of giving up smoking costs one dollar each time, state government can save between 0.86 dollars and 2.52 dollars.
Another research institute obtains the result to reveal, a box of smoke average price in U.S.A. is 5.51 dollars, and the medical treatment that takes place in cigarette follow-up of every box is spent and productivity losses are about 18.05 dollars.
Researchers say, the computing technology is not different with results produced, but this kind of research helps people to understand the actual cost smoking better, help, dispel the healthy behaviour.
Nicholas says: "Don't obscure, die cost and medical cost early, die early cost must bear by smoker. "

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