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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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