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Investment in Tobacco Control Sate Highlights 2001

Investment in Tobacco Control: State Highlights, 2001 – Fact Sheet

  • Investment in Tobacco Control: State Highlights, 2001, provides current state-based information on the prevalence of tobacco use, the health impact and costs associated with tobacco use, tobacco control funding, and tobacco excise tax.
  • Seven states (Arizona, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, and Vermont) are meeting or exceeding the CDC’s Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Programs minimal funding recommendations for investing in effective tobacco control programs.
  • In fiscal year 2001, 45 states invested $883.2 million in tobacco prevention and control programs including 36 states investing $654.9 million funds resulting from state settlements with the tobacco industry; eight states appropriating $218.4 million from tobacco excise tax revenues; nine states appropriating $9.9 million from their general revenue. Other funding sources include $58.1 million awarded to the states by the CDC, and $9 million awarded by the American Legacy Foundation (ALF), which represents approximately 7 percent of what the states are now investing in tobacco control.
  • States have allocated approximately $3.5 billion in tobacco settlement funds for health care services, such as Medicaid, primary care, dental health, mental health, teen pregnancy, drug abuse treatment, minority health, and public health insurance, according to a report released by the National Conference of State Legislatures in July 2000.
  • State-specific smoking prevalence among adults varies more than twofold in 1999, ranging from a low of 13.9 percent in Utah to a high of 31.5 percent in Nevada.
  • The states with the highest current smoking prevalence among adults are Nevada (31.5 percent), Kentucky 
    (29.7 percent), and Ohio (27.6 percent).
  • Current smoking among students in grades 9–12 ranges from 11.9 percent in Utah to 43.6 percent in South Dakota, more than a threefold difference. Among students in grades 6–8 current smoking prevalence ranges from 
    6.7 percent in California to 21.5 percent in Kentucky.
  • Smoking-related death rates are more than twice as high in Nevada (469 deaths per 100,000 population) as in Utah (188 deaths per 100,000).
  • In 1997, Kentucky (53.2 per 100,000) has the highest lung cancer death rates, while Utah (14.2 per 100,000) has the lowest lung cancer deaths.
  • State excise taxes on cigarettes range from a low of 
    2.5 cents per pack in Virginia to a high of $1.11 per pack in New York. Forty-five states have an excise tax on smokeless tobacco products and many states tax these products at a much lower rate than cigarettes.
  • Per capita sales on the number cigarette packages sold and taxed ranged from a low 32.5 in Hawaii to a high 171.7 in New Hampshire.
  • Science-based evidence shows that a comprehensive tobacco control program is proven to be effective in reducing and preventing tobacco use, thereby, reducing the health consequences and economic burden attributed to tobacco use.

Investment in Tobacco Control: State Highlights, 2001

 


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