الأثر السلبي لظاهرة التدخين على الاقتصاد العراقي

الملخص EN

Smoking phenomena has a lot of negative effects on the communities and the most important effects among this effect is the health effect and economic effect and social effect and a like.

in this paper we go through the negative effect to this phenomena on Iraqi economy after its outbreak in Iraqi society recently and the entrance of different kinds of cigarettes with different prices reach to 4000 Iraqi dinars to pack for some of them .where samples was taken from Iraq society just for males from some provinces like Basra ,Thiqar, Baghdad ,and Najaf and divided this samples according to age and calculate smokers proportion in every age category and depend on population ratio according to age category and according to population count in Iraq 2007 calculate the expected number for smokers in Iraq .

The sample divided according to the monthly amount paid for smoking as well, and calculate the average of the monthly amount paid for smoking per person and calculate the expected spent amount to buy smoking materials like cigarettes and types of tobacco used for (hookah ).

And as consideration all the cigarettes are imported we calculate the whole spending from general budget to buy smoking material and effect of this process on Iraqi economy and compared this amount with what possibly accomplish to society with this amount if it invested in health or construction and a like .

As well as discuss the reasons behind make person to smoke and the kind of smoking and the encourage reason for youth to smoke.

And at the end the paper give some suggestions to limit outbreak this phenomena in Iraqi society