Report on health costs associated with active tobacco use
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2015
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National Centre for Health Promotion, Phnom Penh, KH
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Findings support program intervention to combat the tobacco epidemic in Cambodia; the research also provides a baseline for documenting changes in cost of smoking and for monitoring implementation of provisions of tobacco control legislation and relevant Articles of the WHO Framework Convention. The study examined costs related to smoking for both male and female (age 30 and over) including health care costs and productivity loss. The costs of treating tobacco related diseases and associated productivity loss is much higher than the tobacco domestic tax revenue (13,825,230 USD), whereas the total health care cost for treating the five diseases attributable to smoking was 34.5 million USD (2013).
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IDRC Final Report
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