A study from the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing reports that annual health care costs for users of electronic cigarettes were $2,024 more per person than for those who use no tobacco products.
That adds up to about $15 billion a year in the United States.
“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 lead study author Yingning Wang, a health economist at the university’s Institute for Health and Aging. “This is a concerning finding, given that e-cigarettes are a relatively new product whose impact is likely to increase over time.”
