A report titled "The costs of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug abuse to Australian society in 2004/05" by David J. Collins and Helen M. Lapsley estimated the cost of smoking and recreational drugs to be $56.1 billion in 2004-05.

• $24.7 billion in tangible costs, which include out-of-pocket expenses, forgone wages or productivity and hospital and childcare protection costs.

• $11.6 billion in intangible costs, which includes lost quality of life from someone else's drinking.

Lifestyle Related Chronic Diseases from Obesity, smoking tobacco, and excessive consumption of alcohol very likely now cost the Australian economy in excess of $110 billion annually bearing in mind that the above two reports reviewed data in '04/'05 and did not extrapolate its findings to Australia's larger population of over 22 million in 2010.