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. 2017;18(10):2867–2874. doi: 10.22034/APJCP.2017.18.10.2867

Table 3.

Total Deaths, Years of Potential Life Lost and Costs of Mortality (US$) Due to Smoking by Type of Diseases and Gender in Iran, in 2014

Disease Male Female
35-64 65+ 35-64 65+
Lung cancer (LC)
 Number of total death* 1303 1851 525 713
 Smoking-attributable total death 877 1126 77 127
 Total years of potential life lost 1,755,745 1,332,743 753,664 544,935
 Smoking-attributable total years of potential life lost 1,179,860 810,307 109,884 96,780
 Total cost of mortality 76,219,427 - 26,126,072 -
 Smoking-attributable costs of mortality 51,219,454 - 3,809,181 -
 SAF for death, YPPL and costs of mortality 67.3 60.8 14.6 17.8
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
 Number of total death 1285 3830 555 2616
 Smoking-attributable total death 605 1647 75 377
 Total years of potential life lost 4,428,010 2,435,190 2,615,717 1,712,408
 Smoking-attributable total years of potential life lost 817,359 1,047,132 105,710 246,587
 Total cost of mortality 154,687,644 - 81,692,457 -
 Smoking-attributable costs of mortality 72,857,882 - 11,028,585 -
 SAF for death, YPPL and costs of mortality 47.1 43 13.5 14.4
Ischaemic heart disease (IHD)
 Number of total death 14,704 32,704 6136 24,456
 Smoking-attributable total death 6190 4742 669 1167
 Total years of potential life lost 19,970,576 20,988,542 8,656,190 162,90,412
 Smoking-attributable total years of potential life lost 8,407,612 943,525 3,043,339 777,053
 Total cost of mortality 1,863,483,338 - 897,232,720 -
 Smoking-attributable costs of mortality 784,526,486 - 97,798,366 -
 SAF for death, YPPL and costs of mortality 42.1 14.5 10.9 4.8

Note, Since we do not have available information on the number of deaths associated with the three diseases included in our study for the year 2014, we used number of deaths in 2013 in our calculations.