“…The two previous studies were published more than a decade ago, so new evidence, such as that produced in this paper, was needed. Other literature on economic costs and productivity losses have been found in the literature, but none of those studies calculated the impact of labour losses, using deaths averted and YPPLLs [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. Our results show that men continue to account for the greatest burden of premature deaths, YPPLLs and labour losses associated with smoking.…”