Tobacco as a Threat

Using the CDC’s Policy Analysis Tool Answer the questions in the Economic and Budgetary Feedback section on the policy you chose Which is Tobacco as a threat to human health Review the following websites to help you answer the economic and budgetary feedback questions:

Congressional Budget Office https://www.cbo.gov/ The Commonwealth Fund https://www.commonwealthfund.org/ Assignment Health Policy Analysis – Economic and Budgetary Feedback Questions CDC Health Policy Analysis – Grading Rubric Economic and budgetary impacts: Comparison of the costs to enact, implement, and enforce the policy with the value of the benefits Budget.

What are the costs and benefits associated with the policy, from a budgetary perspective? (e.g., for public (federal, state, local) and private entities to enact, implement, and enforce the policy?)

Economic • How do costs compare to benefits (e.g., cost-savings, costs averted, ROI, cost effectiveness, cost-benefit analysis, etc.)?

o How are costs and benefits distributed (e.g., for individuals, businesses, government)? o What is the timeline for costs and benefits? • Where are there gaps in the data/evidence- base? *In assessing feasibility, it is important to identify critical barriers that will prevent the policy from being developed or adopted at the current time.

For such policies, it may not be worthwhile to spend much time analyzing other factors (e.g., budget and economic impact). However, by identifying these critical barriers, you can be more readily able to identify when they shift and how to act quickly when there is a window of opportunity. https://www.cdc.gov/policy/analysis/process/docs/Table1.pdf