Background. Smoking causes significant health damage and may incur a significant economic burden to society. This study … investigates the years of potential life lost, the direct medical costs and the indirect costs of cigarette smoking in Germany …. Method. Using the concept of attributable risks and the prevalence-based approach, smoking-attributable mortality and …

In den vergangenen Jahren sind anhand der vormals internen Dokumente der Tabakindustrie die Verbindungen zwischen … verschiedenen medizinischen Disziplinen sowie prominenten Vertretern des Faches Public Health und der Tabakindustrie in Deutschland … Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Tabakindustrie und prominenten Vertretern der deutschen Arbeitsmedizin gespielt hat, ist dringend …

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states along with the universe of hospitalizations … from 2000-2008 and daily county-level weather and pollution data. Smoking bans in bars and restaurants have been effective …