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Ohio Adult Smoking Rate Drops for Second Year [11/23-3]
Excerpts from: Ohio Drops Out of the Top Ten States Ranked for Adult Smoking
Yahoo Finance [11/22/04]
The Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation (TUPCF) today cited new
data highlighting Ohio's continuing decline in smoking rates. When TUPCF was
established in 2001, Ohio had the fourth highest adult smoking rate in the
country. The latest results from 2003 show a dramatic decline to eleventh-taking
Ohio out of the top ten states with the highest adult smoking rates.
The new data recently appeared in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in a study called, "State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults - United States, 2003."
Specifically, Ohio's prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults in 2003 was 25.4 percent. The same CDC study conducted in 2002 showed Ohio's rate at 26.6 percent. In 2001, it showed Ohio's rate at 27.7 percent.
In 2003, the median rates for all 50 states and the District of Columbia were 24.8 percent for men, 20.3 percent for women and 22.1 percent for the total. The data showed that Ohio men continued to smoke more than women at a rate of 26.9 percent versus 24.0 percent for women. However, the data also highlighted the fact that the smoking rate of men in Ohio is dropping faster than the rate of women. The 2002 study showed that 28.4 percent of men in Ohio were smoking compared to 25 percent of women.
According to the 2003 CDC report, the states with the highest adult prevalence were Ohio's neighbors, including Kentucky (30.8 percent), Michigan (26.2 percent), West Virginia (27.4 percent), Indiana (26.1 percent) and Pennsylvania (25.5 percent). Other states with rates higher than Ohio's include Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and South Carolina (tied with Pennsylvania).
click here to view State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults --- United
States, 2003
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