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State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette
Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Adults and Per Capita Tax-Paid Sales of Cigarettes
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United States, 1997
November 6, 1998 / Vol. 47 / No. 43
The Friday, November 6,
1998, issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) contains a cover article announcing the Great
American Smokeout, which was observed on Thursday, November 19, 1998, and a study titled,
"State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use
Among Adults and Per Capita Tax-Paid Sales of Cigarettes --United States, 1997."
The American Cancer Society (ACS) celebrated
its 22nd "Great American Smokeout." This nationwide event provided an
estimated 47 million U.S. adult smokers and at least 4.5 million U.S. adolescent smokers
with the incentive to give up smoking for at least a day. This year the campaign
focused on preventing the use of all tobacco products and encouraging children and
adolescents never to start using tobacco. For additional information, contact the ACS at
1-800-227-2345 or visit their web site http://www.cancer.org/.
The CDC study, although showing no
significant reduction in U.S. adult smoking prevalence, found that state-specific smoking
prevalence among adults varied more than twofold in 1997, ranging from a low of 13.7
percent in Utah to a high of 30.8 percent in Kentucky. The study also found a more than
sixfold difference in adult use of smokeless tobacco among the 17 states that collected
these data, and a fourfold variation in yearly per capita tax-paid sales of cigarettes in
all states.
Other study findings:
- The states with the highest current
smoking prevalences among adults were Kentucky (30.8 percent), Missouri (28.7 percent),
Arkansas (28.5 percent), Nevada (27.7 percent), and West Virginia (27.4 percent). The
lowest smoking prevalence rates among adults were found in Utah (13.7 percent),
followed by California (18.4 percent), Hawaii (18.6 percent), the District of Columbia
(18.8 percent), and Idaho (19.9 percent).
- Smokeless tobacco prevalence was highest
among men in West Virginia (18.4 percent) followed by men in Wyoming (14.7 percent). Among
women, the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use was 1.7 percent or less in all states
included in the study.
In 1997, Kentucky (186.8) had the
highest yearly tax-paid per capita sales of cigarette packs and Hawaii (49.1) had the
lowest. The national median was 90.0 packs per capita.
State-Specific
Adult Smoking Prevalence, Smokeless Tobacco Prevalence and State Tax-Paid Per Capita Sales
of Cigarettes — United States, 1997 50(40) October 12, 2001
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State-Specific
Adult Smoking Prevalence, Smokeless Tobacco Prevalence and State Tax-Paid Per Capita Sales
of Cigarettes — United States, 1997 — MMWR
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