Smoking Costs Breath Throughout Inhabitants
Author: Donna
The financial burdens of smoking go well beyond the estimated ,500 a year an average smoker shells out to buy discount cigarettes.
Health care costs are another hard hitter, as it is estimated that Ohioans shell out an average of .37 billion a year to foot the bill.
But there are even more indirect costs that a smoker should consider, Marcy Ivory pointed out. As it is know, Ivory is a local tobacco education coordinator and certified tobacco treatment specialist with Community Mercy REACH.
Higher homeowners' insurance costs, decreased car values, lower home values and higher dental care costs are some of the other burdens smokers should watch out for.
Ivory leads a six-week cessation program of Community Mercy Health Partners, partially funded by the Ohio Department of Health, Office of Healthy Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation.
The program was offered free but after a ,000 grant from the department of health is ending, participants will now be charged a fee.
Ivory knows the program, which has garnered a success rate of an average 75 percent since 2004, may lose out on participants because of the fee.
"I do understand that while smokers may be willing to scrounge around to come up with the money for a pack of Kiss cigarettes, when it comes to paying a fee, it gets rocky," Ivory said. "And we hate to see that."
Four Clark County locals participated in Ivory's class last winter.
Their quit date was Nov. 30. May 30 was their six-month anniversary.
The past few months for Eldon Miller, Dawn Cromlish, David Daniels and Denise Harris have been full progress and setbacks.
In the end, Cromlish and Harris were successful — except for one slip for Harris, 51. Miller, 67, had done fine for his first few months before giving in to temptation last month. Daniels, 43, had not quit completely, but has been easing back on smoking so much.
Harris would recommend the program to anyone because of how much she's learned.
She advises anyone thinking of quitting to "just trying it."
"If you're thinking about it, just try it," Harris urged. "I'm a firm believer that you got to just try it. Just try to quit."
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What does medicare in Australia actually cover?
Sorry if this is a daft question but in the Uk we have NHS and private healthcare.
Not sure what medicare covers. Does it cover you for injury and pay out if you have to take time off work?
How does it work if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness.
How much does it cost the average non smoking 40 year old per month? How much is it per month for kids please?
Maybe this link http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/ will help.
Do you think medicare or private insurence should pay for diseases related to smoking and drug abuse?
I think if someone is going to abuse their body, that they should be required to insure themselves privately. And not give the public the cost of treating substance abuse.
Thoughts and comments?
It’ll never happen. There are too many bleeding hearts and open hands in this country to get that done.
Besides, it will create the slippery slope argument. FIrst it’s this, then it’ll be people who don’t eat healthy. Then, you’ll have the government telling me what I can and can’t do with my body on one side, and then fatties and addicts claiming preferential treatment for healthy, ‘perfect’ people on the other. Moreso, what communities and income groups frequent fast food? What classes smoke the most? Where are drug related ‘illnesses’ the highest? Who would be least able to pay for private insurance?
Why should smokers and obese people only have to pay the same medicare withholdings as a healthy nonsmoker?
I try to stay healthy. I go to the break room at work with my fruit and bottled water and see 300lb people eating extremely high fat meals and smokers chain smoking away.
When the paychecks come. The same amount is withheld from our paychecks. They will be using more, why not have to pay more? They will be costing greatly when they get in their 60s and 70s.
Because for anyone to have to pay anymore or less could be considered discrimination. What would constitue ‘obese’? Being 40# overweight or 100#? What about someone with cancer or asthma or MS? Shouldn’t they pay higher amounts as well?
Why does Obama smoke then claim to be a healthcare expert like Pelosi? Shouldn’t Obama stop smoking?
Obama is a chain smoker by his own admission. His personal physician told him after his recent physical to stop smoking. Michelle Obama has publicly said she doesn’t want him to smoke in front of the children.
Studies show smoking costs Americans 80% of the Medicare dollar spent by going for smoking caused cancer, lung disease, and heart disease; let alone time missed from work and the cost of fires set by smokers who flick their butts or leave them burning while they fall asleep.
Shouldn’t Obama just say NO to cigarettes?
What’s the best program to stop smoking?
For advice on stopping smoking try here http://smokefree.nhs.uk/ but when it comes to health reform, have a look below.
I am always amazed how many Americans seem not to be aware about the real healthcare issues relying instead on FOX and other sources to spread lies about the healthcare system of the USA and those abroad. I mean, if healthcare in nations with universal coverage is so bad, why do they keep it?
Obama wants to make insurance more available to all and change the system so that it gives the American people value for money [1]. He also wants change so that the insurance companies find it harder to get out of paying for treatment. The system he is proposing looks similar to that which works in Taiwan where private companies are involved in providing healthcare [2].
Obama campaigned on reforming the healthcare system. He said he wanted to make insurance more available and he was elected to do this [3].
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids both for kids aged under one and those under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [4].
FACT – American insurance companies push up prices and work to stop paying out claims on those they cover [5].
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [6].
That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in any western nation with universal health coverage.
If you do not like the policies that Obama was elected to bring in, he can always be voted out of office in 2012. But if you disagree with the facts, please let me know. I am always willing to learn, but please provide proof. None of those who disagree with me have been able to do that so far.
Can Obama up tobacco taxes to pay for healthcare of smokers like Obama and reduce Medicare and Veteran costs?
Obama smokes. Smoking causes cancer and is the largest risk factor causing heart disease. Those are proven facts. 80 cents of every health care dollar spent in Medicare and for Veterans goes to cardiovascular and lung problems caused by or worsened by smoking.
Wouldn’t increasing taxes on the lucrative tobacco industry (and retraining the workers to other crops and manufacturing) benefit the nation’s health?
Shouldn’t Obama stop smoking? We need a healthy president who sets a good example for Americans especially children, don’t wek?
You are making sense and we just can not have that. If you continue someone from the white house will come and take your exercise bike or something. However the president doesn’t really raise taxes it is the congress. So look out for someone from congress, like one from a tobacco growing state.