Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

Recent changes in smoking laws have influenced gambling behaviour at Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) venues. In this … paper we review the literature that examines the interrelationship between gambling, problem gambling and smoking in order … to gauge the indirect effects of smoking bans in gaming venues. We then perform an analysis on the consequences of a …

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 …

Background: Smoking causes higher incidence of certain diseases and greater severity of most health conditions. Smokers … and recent quitters have higher health care utilization than never smokers and long-term quitters; as a result, smoking … causes an increase in health care costs. This raises the hypotheses that (1) smoking cessation may promote cost savings by …