In the United States, an estimated 443,000 individuals die each year from smoking-related diseases. Annually, cigarette smoking costs over $193 billion in medical expenditures and productivity losses. To help alleviate this burden, tobacco control initiatives and regulations are funded by several states, the federal government, and a number of national organisations. We analysed the current literature on economic analyses of tobacco control programmes for this paper. The most commonly studied smoking cessation strategies include Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and self-help. Other key interventions, such as price and tax increases, media campaigns, smoke-free air regulations and workplace smoking interventions, quitlines, youth access enforcement, school-based programmes, and community-based programmes, have significantly fewer research.
