Costs of Smoking: Literature Review - ต้นทุนจากการสูบบุหรี่: การทบทวนวรรณกรรม

Abstract

Not only does smoking cause harm to the smoker’s health, it also has a negative impact on
surrounding people and the society. In addition, smoking causes significant losses to the country’s
economy. There have been a large number of studies on smoking-attributable costs in many countries.
The objective of this study is to review the literature on smoking costs in Thailand and other
countries by gathering information from academic reports, journal articles and the World Health
Organization. The results are categorized into three aspects: smoking-attributable costs, methods to
analyze the smoking costs, and data and databases of smoking cost studies. Accordingly, the results
of this research can be used as a guideline to study costs of smoking. Furthermore, this study is
useful to academicians, policy makers and others who are interested in smoking, realted health and
economic problems.
Key words: smoking, costs