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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 27.
Published before final editing as: Tob Control. 2020 Apr 27:tobaccocontrol-2019-055482. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055482

Table 2.

A 10 and 20-year difference in economic outcomes from the insurer and societal perspectives by duration of media campaign compared with no campaign ($ millions)

net medical expenditure* by primary insurer Economic outcomes from societal perspective


Media campaign duration Private insurers Medicaid Medicare Media campaign costs Net medical expenditures* Change in productivity losses Net direct costs (societal perspective) Net direct costs (societal perspective)
10 years after campaign start
1 year −170 −870 −360 130 −1700 −1570 −1570 −3140
5 years −350 −3000 −1200 640 −5600 −4420 −4960 −9370
10 years −180 −3600 −1370 1280 −6360 −5320 −5080 −10 400
20 years after campaign start
1 year −920 −1690 −1190 130 −4470 −4600 −4350 −8940
5 years −3600 −7190 −4550 640 −18 110 −13 970 −17 460 −31 430
10 years −4970 −11 870 −6920 1280 −28 140 −22 670 −26 860 −49 530
*

Include the expenditures of smoking cessation treatments and expenditures of smoking-attributable illness.

Includes net medical expenditures plus media campaign costs.

Includes net medical expenditures, media campaign costs and productivity gains.