Friday, August 19, 2022
SCIENMAG: Latest Science and Health News
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • HOME PAGE
  • BIOLOGY
  • CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
  • MEDICINE
    • Cancer
    • Infectious Emerging Diseases
  • SPACE
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • CONTACT US
  • HOME PAGE
  • BIOLOGY
  • CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
  • MEDICINE
    • Cancer
    • Infectious Emerging Diseases
  • SPACE
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • CONTACT US
No Result
View All Result
Scienmag - Latest science news from science magazine
No Result
View All Result
Home Latest News

E-Cigarette use costs US $15 billion per year, reports UCSF in first study of its kind

May 24, 2022
in Latest News
0
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Use of electronic cigarettes costs the United States $15 billion annually in health care expenditures — more than $2,000 per person a year — according to a study by researchers at the UC San Francisco School of Nursing. 

The study, published on May 23, 2022 in Tobacco Control, is the first to look at the health care costs of e-cigarette use among adults 18 and older. 

“Our finding indicates that health care expenditures for a person who uses e-cigarettes are $2,024 more per year than for a person who doesn’t use any tobacco products,” said lead author Yingning Wang, PhD, of the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging.

The researchers based their estimates of health care costs and utilization on data from the 2015-2018 National Health Interview Survey. Health care utilization included nights in the hospital, emergency room visits, doctor visits and home visits. 

“Health care costs attributable to e-cigarette use are already greater than our estimates of health care costs attributable to cigar and smokeless tobacco use,” said Wang. “This is a concerning finding, given that e-cigarettes are a relatively new product whose impact is likely to increase over time.”

Principal investigator Wendy Max, PhD, director of the Institute for Health & Aging, noted that from 2013 to 2018, e-cigarette use among high school students soared from 4.5% to 20.8%.

“We weren’t able to look at e-cigarette use among youth under 18 in this study,” Max said. “However, if more young people continue to take up vaping and keep on using this product when they become adults, the negative impacts on health care costs are likely to increase over time.” 

The authors called for continuing efforts to control tobacco use among youth in order to reduce illness and health care costs associated with e-cigarette use.  

“Even with the current relatively low use of e-cigarettes among adults — 3.7 percent — health care costs are already substantial, and likely to increase in the future if youth continue to use this product,” said Max. 

Authors: The senior author is Wendy Max, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging. Co-authors are Yingning Wang, PhD; Hai-Yen Sung, PhD; and Tingting Yao, PhD, of the Institute for Health & Aging; and James Lightwood, PhD, of the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

Funding: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U54 HL147127) and FDA Center for Tobacco Products. The authors report no conflict of interest.  

 

About UCSF: The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is exclusively focused on the health sciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. UCSF Health, which serves as UCSF’s primary academic medical center, includes top-ranked specialty hospitals and other clinical programs, and has affiliations throughout the Bay Area. UCSF School of Medicine also has a regional campus in Fresno. Learn more at https://www.ucsf.edu, or see our Fact Sheet.

###

Follow UCSF
ucsf.edu | Facebook.com/ucsf | YouTube.com/ucsf

 



Journal

Tobacco Control

Tags: billioncostsecigarettekindreportsstudyUCSFyear
Share27Tweet17Share5ShareSendShare
  • New insights on how some individuals with obesity can lose weight – and keep it off

    New insights on how some individuals with obesity can lose weight – and keep it off

    70 shares
    Share 28 Tweet 18
  • Global warming spawned the age of reptiles

    66 shares
    Share 26 Tweet 17
  • Sharpest image ever of universe’s most massive known star

    66 shares
    Share 26 Tweet 17
  • 60 million years of climate change drove the evolution and diversity of reptiles

    65 shares
    Share 26 Tweet 16
  • Burying short sections of power lines would drastically reduce hurricanes’ future impact on coastal residents

    77 shares
    Share 31 Tweet 19
  • Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy

    172 shares
    Share 69 Tweet 43
ADVERTISEMENT

About us

We bring you the latest science news from best research centers and universities around the world. Check our website.

Latest NEWS

Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy

Allison Institute announces formation of scientific advisory board

How quinine caused World War I (hyperbolic title alert) (video)

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 194 other subscribers

© 2022 Scienmag- Science Magazine: Latest Science News.

No Result
View All Result
  • HOME PAGE
  • BIOLOGY
  • CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
  • MEDICINE
    • Cancer
    • Infectious Emerging Diseases
  • SPACE
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • CONTACT US

© 2022 Scienmag- Science Magazine: Latest Science News.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In