Cost categories | Cost of tobacco smoking | Cost of smokeless tobacco | Total cost |
Direct cost | 29.5 | 12.6 | 42.1 |
Inpatients care cost | 18.5 | 7.3 | |
Outpatient care cost | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
Out of pocket expenditure | 10.4 | 5.0 | |
Indirect cost (cost of productivity loss) | 54.3 | 24.7 | 79.1 |
Cost of productivity loss due to Absenteeism | 21.2 | 10.9 | |
Cost of productivity loss due to premature mortality | 33.2 | 13.8 | |
Total | 83.8 | 37.3 | 121.2 |
Please note that rounding off has resulted in a slight discrepancy on the last row.