"State-Specific Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost – United States, 2000-2004"
Nationwide the annual rate of smoking-attributable deaths per 100,000 people declined by approximately 25 deaths from the period 1996–1999 (288 per 100,000) to the period of 2000–2004 (263 per 100,000). Fully implementing effective state comprehensive tobacco-control programs, as recommended by CDC, can further reduce smoking prevalence and thus more rapidly increase the decline in deaths caused by cigarette smoking in all states. During 2000–2004, the rate of deaths per 100,000 people caused by cigarette smoking varied substantially across the 50 states and DC, from a high of 370 in Kentucky down to 138 in Utah. These most recent smoking-attributable mortality estimates indicate that cigarette smoking continues to impose a substantial health burden on U.S. adults in all states and particularly in those states with a history of higher smoking rates. This report shows that all states except one had decreased smoking-attributable mortality rates overall and among men from 1996–1999 to 2000–2004, reflecting the overall decrease in smoking in the United States. However, among women, declines were observed in only 32 states due to the later pattern of decline in smoking among women.
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