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State-Specific Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Cigarette Smoking in 99 Metropolitan Areas—United States, 2000
MMWR Highlights
December 14, 2001 / Vol. 50 / No. 49
State-specific smoking prevalence data:
Findings from the study of metropolitan areas:
- The median adult prevalence of current smoking was 22.7 percent in
2000 (range 13.0 percent to 31.2 percent).
- The metropolitan areas with the highest prevalence of current smoking
(Toledo, Ohio; Knoxville, Tennessee; Indianapolis, Indiana;
Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio; and Huntington-Ashland, West Virginia)
differed significantly from the 5 cities with the lowest prevalence
(Orange County, California; Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah; San Diego,
California; Miami, Florida; Bergen-Pasaic, New Jersey.)
- The median prevalence was highest in the Midwest at 23.7 percent,
followed by the South (23.2 percent), the Northeast (20.8 percent), and
the West (20.6 percent).
- Three of the 99 metropolitan areas surveyed met the Healthy People
2000 objective of 15 percent for current smoking. Orange County,
California, had the lowest prevalence rate at 13.0 percent, followed by
Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah, at 14.7 percent, and San Diego, California,
at 15.2 percent.
Among daily smokers who had quit for at least one day in the past 12
months, the lowest proportion, 33 percent, was in Charleston, West
Virginia. The highest proportion was in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, where
62.2 percent had quit for at least one day.
State-Specific Prevalence of Cigarette
Smoking Among Adults and Cigarette Smoking in 99 Metropolitan
Areas—United States, 2000 50(49) December 14, 2001
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