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Conover, Christopher James was born on April 22, 1951 in Salzburg, Austria. Son of Roger Frankland and Barbara Ann Conover.
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The Price of Smoking by Sloan Frank A. Ostermann Jan Conover Christopher Taylor Jr. Donald H Picone Gabriel (2004-11-05) Hardcover
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The Price of Smoking
( What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoke...)
What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-old male smoker the cost is $183,000. The total social cost of smoking over a lifetime -- including both private costs to the smoker and costs imposed on others (including second-hand smoke and costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) -- comes to $106,000 for a woman and $220,000 for a man. The cost per pack over a lifetime of smoking: almost $40.00. The first study to quantify the cost of smoking in this way, or in such depth, this accessible book not only adds a weapon to the arsenal of antismoking messages but also provides a framework for assessment that can be applied to other health behaviors. The findings on the effects of smoking on Medicare and Medicaid will be surprising and perhaps controversial, for the authors estimate the costs to be much lower than the damage awards being paid to 46 states as a result of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
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Christopher James Conover
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Christopher James Conover, American health policy analyst, educator. Achievements include research in benefits and costs of health services regulation. Finalist National Merit scholar, 1969; recipient Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts American, 1969. President Piedmont Suzuki Players, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1995—1996, Board of Directors, St. Peter Claver Montessori School, Lexington, Kentucky, 1981—1982; Member of American Society Health Economists.
Education
Master of Arts in Political Science, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in Policy Analysis, Pardee Research and Development Graduate School, Santa Monica, California, 1978. Master of Philosophy in Policy Analysis, Pardee Research and Development Graduate School, Santa Monica, California, 1978.
Career
Research analyst Research and Development Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1974—1978. Policy and budget analysis Kentucky Department Human Resources, Office Policy and Budget, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1979—1982. Executive director Governor's Coalition Payors Address Health Care Costs, 1982—1984.
Associate research, Center Health Policy Research and Education Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1984—1996, assistant research professor, Terry Sanford Institute Public Policy, 1996—2008, director, health policy certified program, 1996—2008, research scholar, Center Health Policy, since 2008. Consultant North Carolina Department Insurance, Raleigh, 2001—2003, Assistant Secretary Planning and Evaluation, United States Department Health & Human Service, Washington, 2002—2003. Editor, news and notes Journal Health Politics, Policy and Law, Durham, North Carolina, since 2001.
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The Price of Smoking
( What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoke...)
- The Price of Smoking by Sloan Frank A. Ostermann Jan Conover Christopher Taylor Jr. Donald H Picone Gabriel (2004-11-05) Hardcover
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The Price of Smoking
Membership
President Piedmont Suzuki Players, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1995—1996, Board of Directors, St. Peter Claver Montessori School, Lexington, Kentucky, 1981—1982. Member of American Society Health Economists.
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Married Deborah J. Ferrero, December 24, 1988. Children: Terrence Ryan, Brooke Elizabeth Caldwell, Natalie Ann Ferrero, Kellam McChesney. Married Pamela Jean Johnston, September 16, 1974 (divorced March 28, 1988).
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American