Cowan, Benjamin; Schwab, Benjamin - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1094-1102
the work of Bhattacharya and Bundorf (2009), who provide evidence that obese workers receive lower wages on account of …) receive significantly lower wages than their non-smoking peers, while smokers who are not insured through their employer … appears to be borne by smokers themselves in the form of lower wages. Second, differences in healthcare costs between smokers …