Question

WORLD VIEW Secondhand Smoke Kills 600,000 people a Year Secondhand smoke globally kills more than 600,000 people each year, accounting for 1 percent of all deaths worldwide. Researchers estimate that annually secondhand smoke causes about 379,000 deaths from heart disease, 165,000 deaths from lower respiratory disease, 36,900 deaths from asthma, and 21,400 deaths from lung cancer. Children account for about 165,000 of the deaths. Forty percent of children and 30 percent of adults regularly breathe in secondhand smoke. Source: World Health Organization If the average adult produces $25,000 of output per year, how much global output is lost annually as a result of adult deaths from secondhand smoke? Instructions: Enter your response rounded to one decimal place. Output lost = $0 billion

Answer 1

Given,

Number of people killed globally due to secondhand smoke = 600,000

Number of children deaths due to secondhand smoke = 165,000

Number of adults killed globally due to secondhand smoke = 600,000 - 165,000 = 435,000

The output of average adult per year = $25,000 per year

Amount of global output lost due to secondhand smoke deaths = 435,000 * $25,000 = 10.875 billion = 10.9 billion (rounded to one decimal place)

Ans: 10.9