Chapter 2 Demographics of tobacco use

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The median adult smoking rate in the United States was 23.2% in 1997. The highest

prevalence rates were Kentucky, 30.8%, Missouri, 28.7%, Arkansas, 28.5%, Nevada,

27.7%, and West Virginia, 27.4%. The lowest rates were in Utah, 13.7%, California,

18.4%, Hawaii, 18.6%, the District of Columbia, 18.8%, and Idaho, 19.9%. The

highest smoking prevalence for men was Kentucky (33.1%), and for women highest in

Nevada (29.8%). The prevalence of adult smokeless tobacco use ranged from 1.4%

in Arizona, the lowest, up to 8.8% in West Virginia.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, November 6, 1998

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In 1997, Kentucky had the highest smoking rate in the nation, 30.8%, up from 27.8% in

1995. 47% of Kentucky high school students were current smokers, and two thirds of

farms in Kentucky grow tobacco.

Associated Press, August 25, 1999 (CDC Data)

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Nearly 40% of American Indian and Alaska Native adults smoke cigarettes, and since

1983, very little progress has been made in reducing tobacco use among this group.

1998 Surgeon General report, Tobacco Use Among Minority Groups

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Smoking rtes among American Indians is highest in the northern plains (47% for men

and 42% for women) and lowest in the southwest (25.4% for men and 17.8% for

women) in surveys from 1993 through 1996. In Alaska, 41.8% of Alaska Native and

American Indian women were smokers, the highest prevalence of any area.

JAMA, March 15, 2000, p. 1415

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The number of Navajo high school students who smoke regularly increased from 29%

in 1992 to 47.5% in 1997.

Associated Press, August 11, 1999

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