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Kick Butts Day, a great time to kick the smoking habit

About: "Kentucky Wins"

By Jelaine Phillips

Here are the facts for anyone interested. Visit the website below or www.cdc.gov and search for tobacco related cancers. March 25, 2009, is Kick Butts Day, a great time to kick the habit.

The toll of tobacco in Kentucky from tobaccofreekids.org

Tobacco use in Kentucky

About: "Kentucky Wins"

By Jelaine Phillips

Here are the facts for anyone interested. Visit the website below or www.cdc.gov and search for tobacco related cancers. March 25, 2009, is Kick Butts Day, a great time to kick the habit.

The toll of tobacco in Kentucky from tobaccofreekids.org

Tobacco use in Kentucky
  • High school students who smoke 26.0% (58,600)
  • Male high school students who use smokeless or spit tobacco 26.7% (females use much lower)
  • Kids (under 18) who become new daily smokers each year 6,500
  • Kids exposed to secondhand smoke at home 363,000
  • Packs of cigarettes bought or smoked by kids each year 13.5 million
  • Adults in Kentucky who smoke 28.3% (916,200)
Nationwide, youth smoking has declined dramatically since the mid-1990s, but that decline has slowed considerably in recent years. The smoking rate among high school students - 20 percent in 2007 - has not declined significantly since 2003, following a 40 percent decline between 1997 and 2003, from 36.4 percent to 21.9 percent.

In addition, 13.4 percent of high school males currently use spit tobacco. U.S. adult smoking declined to 19.8 percent (about 43 million) in 2007, a significant decline from the 2006 smoking rate of 20.8 percent.

Deaths in Kentucky from smoking
  • Adults who die each year from their own smoking 7,800
  • Kids now under 18 and alive in Kentucky who will ultimately die prematurely from smoking 107,000
  • Adult nonsmokers who die each year from exposure to secondhand smoke 980
Smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined -- and thousands more die from other tobacco-related causes -- such as fires caused by smoking (more than 1,000 deaths/year nationwide) and smokeless tobacco use. No good estimates are currently available, however, for the number of Kentucky citizens who die from these other tobacco-related causes, or for the much larger numbers who suffer from tobacco-related health problems each year without actually dying.

Smoking-Caused Monetary Costs in Kentucky
  • Annual health care costs in Kentucky directly caused by smoking $1.50 billion
  • Portion covered by the state Medicaid program $487 million
  • Residents' state & federal tax burden from smoking-caused government expenditures $595 per household
  • Smoking-caused productivity losses in Kentucky $2.30 billion
Amounts do not include health costs caused by exposure to secondhand smoke, smoking-caused fires, spit tobacco use, or cigar and pipe smoking. Other non-health costs from tobacco use include residential and commercial property losses from smoking-caused fires (more than $500 million per year nationwide); extra cleaning and maintenance costs made necessary by tobacco smoke and litter (about $4+ billion nationwide for commercial establishments alone); and additional productivity losses from smoking-caused work absences, smoking breaks, and on-the-job performance declines and early termination of employment caused by smoking-caused disability or illness (dollar amount listed above is just from productive work lives shortened by smoking-caused death).

Tobacco Industry Influence in Kentucky
Annual tobacco industry marketing expenditures nationwide $13.4 billionEstimated portion spent for Kentucky marketing each year $535.3 million.

Published research studies have found that kids are twice as sensitive to tobacco advertising than adults and are more likely to be influenced to smoke by cigarette marketing than by peer pressure, and that one-third of underage experimentation with smoking is attributable to tobacco company advertising.

More detailed fact sheets on tobacco's toll in each state are available by emailing factsheets@tobaccofreekids.org

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