Thank you for smoking
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Cost for drugs to be reimbursed should be reasonable from medical, humanitarian, and economic perspectives. Smoking cessation drugs help people quit smoking and improve health by reducing risks of cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses, but also have economic benefits for reducing smoking-related healthcare expenses and costs to employers. While some smoking cessation drugs are already reimbursed in Sweden when combined with counseling, nicotine replacement therapy is not reimbursed despite being easily available and having no tax if prescribed, so there is a discussion around whether it should be reimbursed to further encourage smoking cessation.
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- 1. Reimbursment principles: Cost for the drug to be reasonable from the medical, humanitarian and economic perspectives
- 2. Should drugs that help people quit smoking be reimbursed? Kristoffer Illergård
- 3. The high cost of smoking
- 4. KOL
- 6. Quit smoking gives better health
- 7. Less cardiovascular diseases Less risk of cancer Less chest diseases Longer life
- 8. $ But also effects on economy
- 9. 26 Series 1 Expenses due to smoking (billion SEK) 7,5 Incomes (billion SEK) Category 1 Category 2
- 10. Employing a smoker costs +30 000 SEK/year
- 11. still
- 12. 11 % smokes on daily basis
- 13. Smoking among grown ups decreases in Sweden
- 14. But increases among the young
- 15. Social status
- 16. Should smoking-cessation drugs be reimbursed?
- 18. ” Best possible health for the tax money that goes to the reimbursement of drugs and supplies TLV
- 20. Bupropion and vareniklin already included combined with counceling
- 21. The first-hand choice, nicotine replacement, is not included today
- 22. Easily available No tax when prescribed
- 23. Why not reimburse nicotine replacement theraphy?
- 25. TLV 15 § lagen (2002:160) om läkemedelsförmåner
- 26. Cost for the drug to be reasonable from the medical, humanitarian and economic perspectives
- 27. Need and solidarity principle: The one with greatest medical need is to have more of the resources spent on health care.
- 28. Case: Nicorette depotplåster Stopped by Need and solidarity principle in 2006
- 29. NRT = self-care
- 30. Lagen om detaljhandel med nikotinläkemedel (2007:1455) Case: Nicorette depåplåster
- 32. Is the society doing enough?
- 33. ” Unacceptably high costs, especially given that they could be prevented Gunnar Ågren, Statens folkhälsoinstitut
- 34. Reimbursment of smokingcessetive drugs are humanitarian and economically motivated